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Khadak
Metascore
53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    75
    It's slow--make that very slow--and the final half hour or so is mystifying and tedious. But it gorgeously recalls Fellini and "Koyaanisqatsi" and hauntingly pits ancient tradition against science, oppression and industrial rot.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    The film's leisurely pace and abstract format isn't meant for the multiplex crowd, but rather for adventurous moviegoers. It took guts to make Khadak and to give it a theatrical release. It might take even more guts to seek it out.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    Even when their picture wanders from any reasonable path, it's never less than stunning to look at.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    50
    An ambitious attempt at cinematic poetry, and how much they have succeeded depends on how well you can sort out its surrealistic meanings.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    50
    A trippy spectacle. It boldly tries to find visuals to describe complex metaphysical and political concepts. But the results often suggest aestheticized eye candy, along the lines of Ken Russell's "Altered States" or Godfrey Reggio's "Koyaanisqatsi" and its sequels.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    50
    Beads together complex ideas and gorgeously wrought segments like pearls on a string, but, with its emblematic characters and sometimes baffling, mystical storyline, pic ultimately remains emotionally distant.
  7. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    50
    This is well staged and photographed, with stirring aerial images and balletic pans and dolly shots, but the story is muddled by the arrival of a free-spirited girl and her musician pals, 60s-style longhairs battling a government conspiracy.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    40
    Khadak recedes deeper and deeper into esoterica as it progresses.
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