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San Francisco Chronicle | Bob GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.Read the full review

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  • Features: The New Cult Canon:Requiem For A Dream

    01/20/10 Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream is about a lot of things: addiction, exploitation, destitution, loneliness, institutional corruption, the toxins of the media and our get-rich-quick culture, and the false promises of the American Dream itself.  |  The A.V. Club
  • Decade: Darren Aronofsky on “Requiem For a Dream”

    12/01/09 (indieWIRE/ 10.6.00)—Before the 1998 Sundance Film Festival , " Pi " was just a mathematical constant and Darren Aronofsky was just a recent American Film Institute grad with a good idea.  |  indieWIRE
  • The Elephant King

    10/16/08 Synopsis: Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn (REQUIEM FOR A DREAM) stars in this drama that pits a pair of brothers against each other.  |  Rotten Tomatoes
  • Darren Aronofsky Talks RoboCop, Noah, and More

    09/15/08 Darren Aronofsky is the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain.  |  Rotten Tomatoes
  • THE WRESTLER Gets Distribution *And* Another Positive Review!

    09/08/08 Moviefone Darren Aronofsky had an interesting weekend: his fourth film, THE WRESTLER, received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, screened to (mostly) acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival, and found distribution through Fox Searchlight (which will give the film an Oscar qualifying release this year).  |  Ain't It Cool News
  • Mr. Beaks Hails Darren Aronofsky's THE WRESTLER!

    09/04/08 Brooklyn-bred Darren Aronofsky has gone to New Jersey and made his NEBRASKA.  |  Ain't It Cool News

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