Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 8/29] | Anton Bitel @ movieScopemag.com
- Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
- Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Carruth’s film plays like a glass harp which has been smashed and reassembled with missing pieces but unbroken sound.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Upstream Color is an admirable workout for the mind that regrettably falls short—try as it might—in offering the heart a similar trial.
- [New – 8/29] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A confounding intellectual mystery, an enigmatic philosophical science fantasy that’s like a cinematic Moebius strip.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Don Lewis @ Film Threat
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: A gorgeous, utterly intoxicating Möbius strip, a wholly original work of art that defies simple categorization and achieves something few modern films ever do – a true sense of cinematic discovery.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A reminder that cinema can still challenge you, rather than just placate you.
- Brent McKnight @ Giant Freakin’ Robot
- Excerpt: Upstream Color is totally worth the nine-year wait.
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: The director of PRIMER returns with a film that exists in the moment in-between being asleep and awake.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Amber Wilkinson @ EyeForFilm
- Excerpt: There’s a suspicion that, even on multiple viewings, the film could well remain stubbornly unpenetrable and despite Carruth’s bravery and mastery of craft, I’m not sure that I’m willing to join in that particular cycle of repetition.
