Tideland Critic Reviews

It's no "trip through the dark to appreciate the light." It's a nightmare from start to finish.Read the full review

Tideland is equally evocative of the pastoral mystery of an Andrew Wyeth painting and the looming menace of "Psycho." The disparity is fitting, because as Tideland unfolds, it's difficult to tell if you're watching a fantasy or a horror movie, or one superimposed on the other.Read the full review

Tideland is, by turns, a complete bore and a creepy experience. And I don't mean "creepy" in a positive sense.Read the full review

Dragged down by a sputtering script and torpid pacing. Way too disturbing for kids and too weird for most grown-ups.Read the full review

A misconceived washout of a darkly gothic story of madness, addiction and child abuse made all the more unpleasant by Gilliam's trademark intense visual style.Read the full review

The results are dull, of all things. The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito,Read the full review

The worst that can be said of the first two-thirds of Tideland is that it is tiresome. Toward the end it becomes creepy, and not in a good way.Read the full review

Immediately shoots to the top of the list of the year's worst movies.Read the full review

Rarely has an act of such cinematic cruelty as Tideland been perpetrated on filmgoers.Read the full review