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- 2017
- R
- A24
- 1 h 40 m
- 2017
- R
- A24
- 1 h 40 m
Summary The exquisite feature film debut of visionary fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavey (Rodarte), Woodshock is a hypnotic exploration of isolation, paranoia, and grief that exists in a dream-world all its own. Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotio...
Directed By: Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
Written By: Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
- 2017
- R
- A24
- 1 h 40 m
- 2017
- R
- A24
- 1 h 40 m
Woodshock
39
2.9
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Summary The exquisite feature film debut of visionary fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavey (Rodarte), Woodshock is a hypnotic exploration of isolation, paranoia, and grief that exists in a dream-world all its own. Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotio...
Directed By: Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
Written By: Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
39
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
38% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
39
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
38% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Woodshock is both gorgeous and pretentious in equal measures, and it's hard to reconcile the fact that you don't get one without the other – or that, coming in the shadow of another free-form swing for the fences, any rush to ding the movie for being an exercise in style over substance isn't even slightly tinged by gender.
There are a lot of half-complete ideas among the sisters’ jumble of imagery, but trying to tie them together is a fitfully enjoyable, if ultimately fruitless experience.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
2.9
14% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
64% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
2.9
14% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
64% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
I came across Woodshock by complete accident when I saw the trailer while waiting for the Blu-Ray of the Safdie Brothers' Good Time to start. I was completely taken in by the trailer. It looked haunting, and stunning, and eerily beautiful. When the trailer finished, I thought to myself: "Wow! That movie looks amazing! An A24 flick too? How come I have never heard of it before?"
A quick Google search revealed that Woodshock is widely regarded as one of the worst films A24 has ever produced. I got my hands on a copy, and was determined to find out the truth. So, is Woodshock A24's biggest blunder?
It just might be.
Woodshock is pretentious garbage, and is the complete opposite of whatever the trailer was trying to evoke. The film is a very poor avant-garde movie, and it almost feels like it was made avant-garde after the fact, which is completely insulting. The "narrative" makes some bold claims about euthanasia, death, and suicide that it never ever delivers on. The story is just some weepy tumblr girl being justified as the victim after doing some really horrendous things. For the most part, Kirsten Dunst does what she can, and the very last shot of the film is visually impressive. Other than that, Woodshock is a mess.
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Viewers who thought nothing much happened in "It Comes At Night" are advised to steer clear.
The first impression is definitely one of all style, and precious little substance.
Now and then the Mulleavys capture a moment or glimmer of true mystery; more often, and certainly in dramatic terms, Woodshock feels like a movie that never stops buffering.
There’s a thin, and very jagged, line between the radical mosaic approach to editing and narrative of a film like Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color and the impressionistic jigsaw vagueness of Woodshock, which simply seems reluctant to commit itself to mere coherence, as if that simply were too unchic.
It becomes the obnoxious equivalent of trying to have a serious conversation with people who are high out of their minds.
Disclaimer: DNF @ 50 minute mark. Curiosity killed this cat! I think this has one of the coolest posters and trailers of any 2017 movie or maybe even any movie. I was really excited when this came out but I couldn't go opening week and the following week it was gone. The critics hated it, I would've still gone because I loved the trailer and poster, but I couldn't of. The one thing an Indie needs is happy critics. I realized, however, that it was free on amazon, so it seemed only fair I give it a watch. The critics I heard from all said it was trippy garbage and I was curious. But, it is NOT trippy garbage, it is legitimately nothing. There is no plot. There's not even hallucinations. It was made for tumblr. I swear that there were points where they paused just so someone could make it a gif set and they could get free advertising. Every single scene is like that. All these slow but aesthetic looking stills are paired with whispering dialogue. That's right, whispering. Everyone talks in lowered voices and barely says anything. I could not keep up with who was who because I was sooo bored and they weren't accenting and words, there were no words to hold onto. My mom came in while I was watching and genuinely asked if I was awake which perfectly describes my feelings towards this movie.
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There is only one word that can describe Woodshock: Irredeemable. This movie is atrocious. What happened, A24?
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