Stay Critic Reviews

The ending is an explanation, but not a solution. For a solution we have to think back through the whole film, and now the visual style becomes a guide. It is an illustration of the way the materials of life can be shaped for the purposes of the moment.Read the full review

Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative.Read the full review

Stay is interesting, but it's hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similarity to their favorite auteur's scent.Read the full review

Eventually I gave up on meaning and began instead to study the profuse imagery -- and also the flat characters and anchorless performances.Read the full review

It's become a tired cliché for characters in "serious" science-fiction movies not to realize they're dead or dying, but Stay as a film doesn't seem to realize that it's dead from the outset, an unconvincing automaton grimly going through the motions.Read the full review

An ultra-arty "The Sixth Sense" that deliberately inhibits comprehension of the story until the very end -- and arguably continues to inhibit it even then -- pic features certifiably talented people on both sides of the camera collaborating on a project that probably shouldn't have been undertaken in the first place.Read the full review

The final twist does more to unravel what's come before than to tie it all together, making what's come before feel like a cosmopolitan goose chase.Read the full review

There's really not much of an audience for this picture. The movie demands that its viewers put the fragmented images and information together like an intellectual jigsaw puzzle, but it never gives those viewers a good reason to do so.Read the full review

That mind-bending, mystical business was better handled in such films as 1990's "Jacob's Ladder."Read the full review