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Bliss

Bliss

2021

Mike Cahill

Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Madeline Zima, Nesta Cooper ...

4.4

1,454

Sci-Fi. Drama A recently-divorced guy falls for an enchanting woman's theory that they live in a harsh, alternative world simulation inside of a beautiful, blissful reality.

	Author	Review
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"A promising premise gets a dull, lead-footed treatment (...) [Cahill] loses himself in the minutia, fumbling one promising idea after another until we’re left with little more than a listless 'Matrix' retread"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"As with both of his previous works, the filmmaker delivers an undeniably ambitious mind-bender that bites off more than it can narratively chew."	NEU
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"Despite Owen Wilson’s strong performance, Bliss can only simulate a compelling sci-fi drama"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Every syllable of action (...) is jeopardy-free and interest-free (...) Wilson looks as if he thinking about something else (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"The movie ‘Bliss’ is like rip-off of ‘The Matrix,’ only smarter (and a little less awesome) (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"'Another Earth' was a tantalizing feature, in large part because its sci-fi elements orbited at an oblique angle (...) It was everything 'Bliss' is not."	NEG
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"[Cahill] flounders with creating a sensory experience to match the story’s cerebral ideas"	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"The concepts [the characters] explore are often both silly and insulting (...) Life might be messy and weird and scary, but it possesses more honesty than this cinematic misery."	NEG
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"Expect head-scratching, some non-sequiturs and lots of quirks and 'Bliss' will mostly entertain and consistently baffle (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nick Levine NME	"Cahill’s future world just isn’t convincing enough to spark much bliss in this one (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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