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Requiem for a Dream

2000

Darren Aronofsky

Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, Marlon Wayans ...

7.8

122,443

Drama Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a small business and spending the rest of their lives in love--their version of the American dream. The two are also desperate heroin addicts, a compulsion that darkens their lives and leads Harry to repeatedly pawn his mothers television. His mother, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), is addicted to television, which is why ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] may be a bummer to some audiences, so harsh is its view of the drug culture. But no one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"It’s technically striking filmmaking, to be sure, but what it’s presenting is nothing that many people will want to look at."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Mr. Aronofsky draws astonishing performances from his actors."	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Something like a poetry of degradation and sorrow."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"A superbly acted tale of hopelessness and despair (...) The final cross-cutting (...) is hard to watch and impossible to recommend."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"One of the most disturbing movies ever made (...) yet it’s impossible to take your eyes off it (...) [It] is hypnotically harrowing and intense"	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Darren Aronofsky's grim, but lyrical addiction drama is nonetheless one of those rare films to fail because of a surfeit of ideas, rather than the opposite (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Slant	"Most viewers feel 'Requiem for a Dream' is either a gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda. Thing is, both camps are sort of right (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ben Falk BBC	"There are two things though that lift this movie above the norm: one is the staggering performances from all the players (...) and the other is the flamboyant and innovative visual style of director Darren Aronofsky (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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