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Under the Silver Lake

2018

David Robert Mitchell

Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Callie Hernandez, Topher Grace ...

6.0

8,681

Mystery. Thriller. Drama In L.A. an aimless young man (Andrew Garfield) falls in love with his gorgeous neighbor (Riley Keough). After the woman mysteriously vanishes, the man sets out on an odyssey throughout the underworld of Los Angeles in order to find her.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Stylish but self-indulgent (...) Despite a compelling lead in Andrew Garfield, the tension dissipates rather than mounts as this knotty neo-noir slides into a Lynchian swamp of outre weirdness"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[A] muddled riff on Hitchcock/Chandler thrillers (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"At once seductive and baffling (...) There are moments when 'Under the Silver Lake' evokes David Lynch (...) 'Under the Silver Lake' gets its hooks in you, but it’s a good-bad movie"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Under the Silver Lake' transforms a familiar genre into a unique context (...) The movie gains confidence as it moves along, finally landing at a masterful pitch of outrageous inspiration deep into the third act"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"The ambition of 'Under the Silver Lake' is worth cherishing. It will either evaporate into nothingness or cohere into something you’ll want to hug for being so wonderfully weird." (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"'Under The Silver Lake' often feels like the product of a talented filmmaker using his first hefty budget to empty a long developed inventory of ideas, throwing them all against the wall to see what sticks."	NEU
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"Mitchell knows how to end Sam’s story but he seems less sure how to connect the dots in the film’s baroquely layered, fever dream of a plot."	NEU
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"Mitchell has crafted a deliberately overwrought mystery that almost feels like a work of interpretive (...) anthropology (...) [An] admirably cuckoo film"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A tasty neo-noir (...) Mitchell’s dexterity at balancing romance, comedy and thrills consistently rewards the viewer’s patience"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Andrew Garfield is tremendous (...) What a peculiar experience it is (...) The film has a woozy, cracked vision that will alienate some, mystify more and entrance a select few (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A catastrophically boring, callow and indulgent LA mystery noir (...) It looks horribly like a screenplay he might have written when he was 19 (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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