Masked and Anonymous Critic Reviews

A fascinating, vexing, indulgent, visionary, pretentious, mesmerizing pop culture curio.Read the full review

It's only when the film attempts to express its ideas in spoken English that logic dissolves into a muddle that would test the most rabid Dylanologist.Read the full review

A messy, ambitious comedy.Read the full review

Requires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it.Read the full review

An unholy, incoherent mess. Read the full review

The look of the film is great, the soundtrack glorious, but more often than not the dialogue is atrocious, featuring a lot of long-winded gobbledygook. Read the full review

Simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing. Read the full review

The exact cinematic equivalent of a classic Bob Dylan song. It's also proof that what is towering genius in one medium can go insanely wrong in another. Read the full review

Dylan's performance doesn't offer any clues. He's an icon and he delivers an icon's performance, literally: He could easily have been replaced by piece of wood with his face painted on it. That distance also means he remains more or less untouched by the embarrassment going on around him, even though it's largely his own creation. Read the full review