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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez
You may not be able to figure it out, but that's part of the point of this sensually-directed, sensory-laden experiential (and experimental) piece of art that washes over you like a sonorous bath of beguiling visuals, ambient sounds and corporeal textures.
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91
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indieWIRE Eric Kohn
Upstream Color is routinely confusing but not oppressively so; its final exquisite moments explain little yet still manage to invite you in.
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88
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Slant Magazine
Upstream Color is lush, rhythmic, and deeply sensual, a film of exceptional beauty.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times
A romance, a thriller, and a science-fiction drama, Upstream Color tantalizes viewers with an open-ended narrative about overcoming personal loss.
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83
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Film.com William Goss
As willfully oblique as his first film was densely foreboding, a rumination on the perils and pleasures of interpersonal connection that would seem to refuse any easy connection with even the most curious of audiences.
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80
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
Upstream Colors certainly is something to see if you're into brilliant technique, expressive editing, oblique storytelling, obscuritanist speculative fiction or discovering a significant new actress.
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80
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Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
So Upstream Color is defiantly pitched in its own idiosyncratic key, but it bears the unmistakable influence of Carruth's fellow Texan Terrence Malick and also of Steven Soderbergh's early films.
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New York Post Farran Smith Nehme
This enigma-delivery system from a sharp mind has enthralling moments but becomes a bit enervating in its self-seriousness. By the end, the whole thing feels more academic than mind-bending.
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60
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Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
No one is going to explain any of this for you - and the slightly snobby implication of Upstream Color is that explanations are for suckers.
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60
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Upstream Color is weird, but it's worth the time.
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