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Pandaemonium
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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
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  1. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    90
    Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    83
    Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    80
    Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    80
    Literate and handsome.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    63
    Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
  9. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    40
    Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.
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  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    40
    The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."
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