Surveillance (2009) Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Based upon 7 Critic Reviews
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Variety | Leslie FelperinAdd Critic to Favorites

A mildly amusing trifle with one of the genre's dafter plot twists.Read the full review

The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

It seems doubtful that Surveillance, a would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering, would be taking up space in theaters if its director were not the daughter of a name filmmaker.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

The most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance - "enjoyable," in the relative sense - is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Surveillance suggests "Jennifer Lynchian" should be used for films that aspire to David’s moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon."Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Ray BennettAdd Critic to Favorites

Surveillance will please the B-movie crowd in theaters and on into the ancillariesRead the full review

Los Angeles Times | Robert AbeleAdd Critic to Favorites

At the end, all is horrifically explained, the body count inflates, yet hardly anything makes sense. In Papa Lynch's films, little is explained, yet because he's so gifted at mining our deepest fears and scariest desires, logic is excused.Read the full review

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