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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90New Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufNew Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufEasily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumPandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
- 80The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThe New York TimesLawrence Van GelderLiterate and handsome.
- 80L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmTemple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsTreats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyNever quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
- 40Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterThe exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickPandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."