Critic Reviews
71
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
22(69%)
mixed
7(22%)
negative
3(9%)
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100
No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
100
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.
100
May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.
100
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.
91
Burstyn is astonishing, forsaking all vanity to make silly biddy Sara a fully dimensioned human being.
90
Be warned: it's a downer, and a knockout.
90
A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption.
90
A fluent, intelligent piece of work whose sex and violence are anything but gratuitous, and exactly the kind of highly personal, no-holds-barred vision of life on the ragged edge that independents always aspire to but rarely have the goods to achieve.
88
A powerful fable about love and addiction that manages to be darkly humorous when it isn't graphic or harrowing in the extreme.
88
An unrelentingly dark vision that's as hard to watch as it is impossible to walk away from.
