Requiem For a Dream Critic Reviews
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He (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Otherwise, we might not be able to bear it.Read the full review
No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.Read the full review
May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.Read the full review
Be warned: it's a downer, and a knockout.Read the full review
A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption.Read the full review
Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel.Read the full review
It’s technically striking filmmaking, to be sure, but what it’s presenting is nothing that many people will want to look at.Read the full review
Becomes increasingly unwatchable -- not just bleak but punishing, as if the director wants to fry your circuits along with his characters'.Read the full review
It's two hours of slumming in a vision of hell hatched from bourgeois comfort. That, and not its unsavory subject matter, is what makes it bummer theater.Read the full review
While director Aronofsky pistol-whips your attention with his style, the characters (mostly relegated to human mannequins in Aronofsky's visual schemes) suffer big time.Read the full review
