SummaryWhen a mysterious Signal triggers an event that sparks the end of the world, Aubrey Parker is trapped in her dead best friend’s apartment, with a single cassette tape labelled This Mixtape Will Save The World. With reality fraying at the edges, Aubrey must unlock the secrets of the Signal. A secret that could end up saving the world... or condem... Read More
Directed By:A.T. White
Written By:A.T. White
Starfish
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Apr 17, 2019
89
White brings an incredible freshness to the well-trodden postapocalyptic genre. Starfish flips from introspective drama to Lovecraftian creature feature to pastel-tinged animation without ever losing coherence.
Apr 23, 2019
80
Pain either destroys us or makes us stronger. The trick is knowing how to avoid the traps and use it for inspiration. While he could have stayed stuck in the black void of sorrow, White instead made something beautiful. Honestly, he could not have paid a better tribute to his friend.
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Sep 10, 2024
10
Nice movie wonderful cast love the way the plot twists came through.With some highly unexpected cliff hangers a nice beginning and back story just disappointed at the end though was a little underwhelming and not too like too **** a nice background story tbh lollllllllllllllllllllll I R
Mar 26, 2019
75
The work of a filmmaker I'm very excited to see and hear more from, “Starfish” is very much its own sci-fi mixtape—curated with hit and miss offerings, but with an undeniable and meaningful sincerity all the same.
Jun 20, 2019
70
If White’s wild formal experimentation and narrative cul-de-sacs result in a strange identity crisis for the film — a sense that he wasn’t entirely sure which movie he wanted to make — Gardner’s stellar work unifies it.
May 30, 2019
70
It’s a little like a post-apocalyptic survivalist thriller, crossed with Lynn Ramsay’s impressionistic masterpiece “Morvern Callar,” crossed with a Radiohead video. Not all of those pieces fit together. But they combine into something strikingly original.
Mar 26, 2019
63
As Starfish becomes a more obvious personal metaphor involving betrayal and forgiveness, it also becomes a bit less interesting—even as it still marks White as an ambitious talent to watch.
Jul 25, 2020
6
In the same vein as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Definitely an art house experiment on how to portray sadness and grief. There are a lot of interpretations left to the viewer, and that’s what makes it a great Indie. Worth a view, just to see how weird it is.
Oct 31, 2020
5
Quasi experimental and pretty interesting, but too much all over the place to be considered something more special than it is.
Sep 19, 2020
2
This movie has fantastic cinematography, great production design, costumes, and acting. Everything I'm looking for except a coherent plot. Sure there are hints of what the plot might be, but this is one of those "you decide wtf was going on" kind of films. The pacing is borderline catatonic, and I'm saying this as someone who generally really likes slow dramas. It's painfully obvious what this film is trying to be, it just fails spectacularly to get there. This wouldn't be so bad if the trailer wasn't so deceptive. Every cool moment in the trailer disappoints when you experience that scene in the film. I'm all for filmmakers making their avant garde dream film, just don't lie to me in order to get me to watch it. TL;DR: If you want a post apocalyptic film that's character focused, slow paced, and looks beautiful try something like Aniara.
Feb 18, 2020
2
Nothing ever happens in the whole movie. I mean there are moments where something seems to be happening, but it's all so confusing and the worst part is the glacial pacing. Every scene is a self-indulgent depressing bore. Literally shows her taking a piss a couple times, for no reason I could tell, just to make you really feel like you're there, I guess. I stopped 60% of the way through, and seriously it was not worth watching it at all. It bored me so bad I don't care if I never find out what it was about.
Production Company:
- We Are Tessellate
- 3Roundburst Productions
- Spellbound Entertainment
Release Date:Mar 15, 2019
Duration:1 h 39 m
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Film Club's The Lost Weekend
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
