What Dreams May Come Critic Reviews

So breathtaking, so beautiful, so bold in its imagination, that it's a surprise at the end to find it doesn't finally deliver.Read the full review

What Dreams May Come has the sensibilities of an art film placed into a big-budget feature with an A-list cast. Read the full review

Despite its numerous missteps and miscalculations, What Dreams May Come is often a powerful, affecting piece of filmmaking.Read the full review

A heaping serving of metaphysical gobbledygook wrapped in a physically striking package.Read the full review

What Dreams May Come, based on a novel by Richard Matheson and directed by Vincent Ward, the New Zealand filmmaker noted for his skill at creating lavish cinematic dreamscapes, represents the uncomfortable collision of two ideas about filmmaking, one commercial, the other eccentrically, ambitiously dreamy.Read the full review

There are a number of surprises in the idiosyncratic film, and one of its pleasures is the oblique and unchronological way in which Ward peels away the layers of the story, flashing backward and forward in time and jumping between Earth and the Beyond, separating his scenes with blindingly blank, white-out screens.Read the full review

So diaphanous it practically dissolves as you watch it.Read the full review

Astonishing visualizations of the afterlife are coupled with a drawn-out allegory about communication between the living and the dead that becomes something of a trial to sit through.Read the full review

Watching it is like being in a room with a couple locked in a torrid embrace. It might be fun for them, but what's in it for everyone else? Read the full review