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100
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.
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100
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
He (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Otherwise, we might not be able to bear it.
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100
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Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Aronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten.
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90
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Be warned: it's a downer, and a knockout.
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90
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
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38
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
It's two hours of slumming in a vision of hell hatched from bourgeois comfort. That, and not its unsavory subject matter, is what makes it bummer theater.
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30
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
While director Aronofsky pistol-whips your attention with his style, the characters (mostly relegated to human mannequins in Aronofsky's visual schemes) suffer big time.
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20
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
In the end the movie goes nowhere a hundred movies haven't already been and tells us nothing we don't already know. It does so with so much violent energy, however, it's like four brutal years at film school crammed into an hour and a half.
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