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Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie chat rooms, significant indie-cred applications, IMHO. Oh, and :-).Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

An ingenious blend of sci-fi and mystery.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

It is maddening, fascinating and completely successful.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

A brainteaser of the first order, Primer ranks among the best of recent thrillers such as "Memento" or "The Matrix," which rupture the fabric of reality and radically destabilize the narrative in kind.Full Review

Scott Tobias
The Onion (A.V. Club)

Shane Carruth's extraordinary work of shoestring speculation throws you into a deep ocean of techno-jargon and lets you dog-paddle or sink like a stone.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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