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Donnie Darko

2001

Richard Kelly

Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Jena Malone ...

7.4

81,879

Fantasy. Sci-Fi. Mystery Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-traveling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal). DONNIE DARKO is not your typical teen comedy. But, like GHOST WORLD and RUSHMORE, it uses the trappings of the teen comedy as the entry ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"A mini-masterpiece that marks the arrival of brave new talents in Gyllenhaal and Kelly. Cult glory beckons (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This set-up and development is fascinating, the payoff less so (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A marvelous, messed-up antidote to the sitcom alienation of 'American Beauty' (...) An original indie vision."	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"An engaging, time-tripping Holden Caulfield (...) The year’s most ambitious indie"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"You want the movie to work, even though it becomes evident early on that it doesn't, succumbing to a need to crawl into the head of its troubled young protagonist"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Pop classic of paranoia matures with age (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Is the entire world at stake, or just Donnie’s? The genius of Kelly’s movie is that it refuses to acknowledge a meaningful difference."	POS
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"Replete with unsettling atmosphere, dark laughs and intriguing, likeable characters (...) Kelly's picture is enjoyable but senseless (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"Enigmatic, cult cinema (...) Freakishly special (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	entertainment.ie	"A remarkable blend of fantasy and reality (...) A perplexing yet innovative experience"	POS

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