Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 10/24] | Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: questo film è uno scherzo, una presa in giro: i titoli di testa devono essere sbagliati. I nomi di Paul Schrader e Bret Easton Ellis non c’entrano nulla con questo squallido thriller che sarebbe sfigurato persino sull’ultima cable tv americana.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: If you can wade through all of that, if you can tolerate the film’s jarring inconsistencies and its cringe-inducing, non-sex-scenes-of-a-porno screenplay, you will see one good performance, and another great one.
- Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: Paul Schrader’s and Brett Easton Ellis’ wickedly unnerving satire offers the usual Southern California power games, and also shows how soul-sapping this constant contesting can be.
- Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: This highly ballyhooed, self-and-kickstarter-financed, low-budget film from director Paul Schrader and screenWriter Bret Easton Ellis certainly bears the imprint of its makers…watchable trash
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Yet while the film looks and sounds great, especially considering that it was made for a very low budget, it never reconciles its aesthetic quality with its languid plot. At times, it feels like it’s just a “What are you doing here?” away from being a feature-length version of “The Californians.”
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: …those looking only for evidence to support their pre-conceptions are missing or willfully ignoring the underlying tension Schrader explores in THE CANYONS, an elegy for traditional cinema and its filmmakers in the advent of fractured world of digital moviemaking.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: Typical Ellis nihilism meets Schrader’s ability to create something out of very little.
- Peter Gutierrez @ Firefox News
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: This pitiful would-be-sleazy melodrama is so terrible it can’t even manage to be cheesy.
- Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Perversely watchable, but “The Canyons” is no more than a curio, a vitriolic, rather insipid look at entitled, dead-eyed Angelenos that can’t be confused for resembling a work of art, although it was probably meant to be.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Jason McKiernan @ Film Racket
- Excerpt: …a high-camp schlockfest that presents itself as a self-serious wannabe-porno…
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: In too deep…
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
