Critic Reviews
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New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.
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Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
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The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
Literate and handsome.
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LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.
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Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
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.
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TV Guide
Ken Fox
As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling.
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New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
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Variety
Dennis Harvey
Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
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Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.
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Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
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New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."
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