Black Rain
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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

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  1. KevinG.
    Dec 19, 2002
    10
    Last Wave stretches--confuses--mystifies--TRANSFORMS. Its paradigm is particularly relevant in these Days of Ecocrisis/Ecocide. Hopis and others warn that the long-prophesied Days of Purification are upon us. Some sources predict that May 2003 is a time of cataclysmic global transformations, in the spirit of The Last Wave...leading to the Fifth World.
  2. YoonMinC.
    Sep 26, 2003
    8
    A genuinely bone-chilling movie that explores the areas of division and convergence between modern and primitive man, between rationalism and myth. As the story quietly progresses we feel as though having imperceptively crept into nightmare territory.

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Metascore
85 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critics

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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Weir had a truly magical touch in early films like this 1977 masterpiece, which offers a transfixing excursion into the "dream time" of Australian myth.
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  2. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    80
    Weir does manage to deliver the goods.
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  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (not credited)
    80
    A powerful, yet subtle, picture from Australian director Peter Weir, who has demonstrated quite a flair for mystical themes.
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