Lost River

"Had Terrence Malick and David Lynch somehow conceived an artistic love-child together, only to see it get kidnapped, strangled and repeatedly kicked in the face by Nicolas Winding Refn, the results might look and sound something like “Lost River" 

"Slyly political, it observes the mortgage crisis through a warped looking glass. The cinematographer (...) finds a perverse beauty in the decline." 

"A visual and aural sensory bath that shows some real flair but feels madly derivative at every moment." 

"Given the talent assembled, the emptiness at its center only makes it feel like more of a waste. But it does look great, it does sound great (...) and can be fitfully interesting." 

"It is often ridiculous and fatuous but often ingenious. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)" 

"David Lynch, Mario Bava, Nicolas Winding Refn, Terence Malick, Gaspar Noé and a splash of David Cronenberg for good measure. But these filmmakers’ ideas and imagery aren’t developed, they’re simply reproduced (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"