Beyond the Black Rainbow
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  • Starring: Eva Allan, Michael Rogers
  • Summary: Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, Beyond The Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. (Magnet Releasing)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Simon Abrams
    May 15, 2012
    88
    Something like a trippy grindhouse homage whose familiar images are refracted through a prism of blacklight posters, Jodorowsky films, and even Rob Zombie's grungy psychotropic sensibility.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    May 15, 2012
    80
    At heart, the film is no more (or less) than a brilliantly executed lark, but it's not often that we're reminded with such potency that movies are most delightful as sensory experiences.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    Jun 6, 2012
    50
    As filmmaking debuts go, Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow is as striking as it is nuts.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    Jun 7, 2012
    38
    Beyond the Black Rainbow has a doomy, dreamy, druggy, draggy feel that's impressively sustained - until it becomes oppressive, then pointless, then laughable.

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  1. McCorpse
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    this movie was borring as hell. There was a scene where the guy is getting dressed and its doing it in ultra slow motion that when i pressed fast forward it still looked like he was getting dressed slowly...;I. are you kidding me? its not stylish, its not trippy, its not anything but boring.… Expand
  2. rocketpackpanda
    1
    The film looks magnificent. That is about the only good thing one can say about this film. The gorgeous cinematography is wasted here as the film simply becomes a meaningless montage off weird images for the sake of weirdness. The actors look like they aren't sure of what they're supposed to be feeling. Frankly I dont blame them, the micro-direction, the ridiculously obtuse-for-no-reason script, the seeming randomness off it all makes for one big **** of a film. The music, could have been great, but the excellent theme music is cut out for a grating hum by the end off it all. It bombards you over the head with all the subtlety of an atom bomb. The film has no point, no meaning, nothing of anything except pretty images really. Even art house directors or Jowordosky have some meaning to their work. This is a brain hammering montage of as many weird things as the director can throw in. And the ending? One of the worst endings in film. It has no conclusion, no rumination it just ends in the middle as if the director/writer ran out of ideas. Save your time and go watch Enter the Void instead if you want to see what a modern mind bender of a film is.… Expand

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