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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

2018

David Slade

Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Alice Lowe ...

6.3

20,760

Thriller. Sci-Fi. Drama A young programmer makes a fantasy novel into a game. Soon, reality and virtual world are mixed and start to create confusion.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Stuart Heritage The Guardian	"A masterpiece of sophistication. From a user viewpoint, it is seamless."	POS
United States	Liz Shannon Miller IndieWire	"[A] deliciously meta-interactive experience (...) [It] is not designed for passive viewing, but it is a lot of fun."	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"Of all the things 'Black Mirror' could be doing, this seems, sadly, to have been the wrong path, one the show would be well served by ditching and starting its story as close to completely anew as it can."	NEG
United Kingdom	Ed Power Telegraph	"A spellbinding choose-your-own-nightmare (...) The performances are great too (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matt Miller Esquire	"[It] traps you in a maze of madness (...) It's like nothing I've ever experienced in a movie, a TV show, on Netflix, or anything else."	POS
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"[It] proves to be more of an interesting experiment than a creatively successful one (...) Like many a holiday gift, the temptation after one or two plays is to put the thing away and leave it there until the next iteration comes out."	NEU
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"[It] is a feverish first, combining the emotion of a film with the addictiveness of a videogame.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Willa Paskin Slate	"It's tech we're supposed to be able to boss around that bosses us around instead. In that way, it's a perfect Netflix show."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I like the idea that Netflix is pushing the boundaries of what we should expect when we turn on their service. I also want to see a traditional season of 'Black Mirror' more than I do another one of these."	NEU
United States	David Griffin IGN	"A one-of-a-kind interactive experience that takes the best aspects of video games and movies to create a compelling story with multiple narrative permutations (...) it is worth experiencing more than once."	POS
United States	Chris Longo Den of Geek	"Fans will have to reset their brain (...) It’s all too new, too exciting, and frustratingly mind-bending to process in the moment (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kelly Lawler USA Today	"I suppose there might be a path I could have taken that would have satisfied me more (...) Every story should be equally strong. (...) But they certainly get a lot of points for trying."	NEU
United States	Daniel Kurland Bloody Disgusting	"an extremely addictive and satisfying experience (...) A major risk, but it’s one that absolutely pays off (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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