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6.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling
  • Summary: In this psychological thriller, a distraught young man announces to his psychiatrist that he plans to commit suicide in three days. The psychiatrist's desperate attempts to help his new patient lead him through the city on an incredible, nightmarish trip to the place between life and death. (20th Century Fox)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 29
  3. Negative: 8 out of 29
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    The ending is an explanation, but not a solution. For a solution we have to think back through the whole film, and now the visual style becomes a guide. It is an illustration of the way the materials of life can be shaped for the purposes of the moment.
  2. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    58
    In Stay, the director, Marc Forster, fresh from "Finding Neverland," turns Manhattan into a nightmarish dreamscape and his characters into self-destructive ghosts.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    If "The Sixth Sense" was a bad movie redeemed by its surprise ending, Marc Forster's Stay is a seemingly good movie leading to a devastating letdown.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 34
  3. Negative: 12 out of 34
  1. geofd.
    10
    If you understand what you see. You will love this film. Well Done.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. SusanJ
    5
    This movie is just average. It attempts to be artsy, and although it has great cinematography, it fails in everyway to carry on a substantial and effective story line. The movie pretty much tries too hard and doesn't quite cut it.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DWilly
    3
    It's amazing that the same guy who directed "Monster's Ball" and "Finding Neverland" could direct this toad; just as it is that Ryan Gosling, who showed such initial promise, could prove here (and with "The Notebook") such a wash out as an actor; Ewon McGregor just keeps digging his same wan hole with every new performance; and while I'm not ready to give up on Naimi Watts, enough general anguish, Honey. Oh, it's a slickly made movie, but a sketchy idea badly written.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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