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64
Viewer score based on 5 votes.

Critic Score

44
Critics' score based on 26 reviews.
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This movie reminds me of a sight I once saw in Herford Texas. In a feed lot there was this huge heap of dung on which was standing majestically a... . Remove the cow and you have the humor value of this movie and the smell. I spent money on this pile, please don't let this happen to you. Full Review

September 19,2008
brakemanjack

Southland Tales, while offering an intriguing vision of the future, remains frustratingly incoherent and unpolished.

June 17,2008
walkerbjs22
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Critic Reviews

Funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America and its discontents.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times

Southland Tales has a mood unlike anything I've seen: dread that morphs into kitsch and then back again. It's a film that tried my patience, and one I couldn't shake off.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Richard Kelly's Southland Tales isn't just a movie. It's an apocalyptic piata that's been bazooka-ed open.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

You get the sense that Kelly is too angry to really find any of it funny. It's easy to empathize with his position, not so easy to remain engrossed in a film that's occasionally inspired but ultimately manic and scattered.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times

An ambitious hodgepodge that is all bang and bluster.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today
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