Naqoyqatsi
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59 out of 100

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  • Summary: This film merges the power of image and music to plunge into the heart of the hyperaccelerated, globally wired 21st century. Mesmerizing images plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, stream across the screen in synch with a hypnotic score by Philip Glass, featuring the passionate cello work of Yo-Yo Ma. (Miramax Films)… Collapse

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 23
  3. Negative: 2 out of 23
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Its best moments offer a sense of motion-picture poetry that will lift receptive viewers out of their seats.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    I have problems with Naqoyqatsi as a film, but as a music video it's rather remarkable.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Dense collage of digitally altered images often looks shockingly like some super-hip media agency's show reel.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Laura Sinagra
    30
    Despite some rocking bombast by Philip Glass and reliably wicked cello saws from Yo-Yo Ma, the whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad.

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