Bliss

Name: Bliss
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Released: February 5, 2021
Rating: 40
Cast: DeRon Horton, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Joshua Leonard, Madeline Zima, Mercy Malick

2021

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Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): February 5, 2021 | R

Starring: DeRon Horton, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Joshua Leonard, Madeline Zima, Mercy Malick, Nesta Cooper, Owen Wilson, Ronny Chieng, Salma Hayek, Steve Zissis

Summary: An unfulfilled man (Owen Wilson) and a mysterious woman (Salma Hayek) believe they are living in a simulated reality, but when their newfound ‘Bliss’ world begins to bleed into the ‘ugly’ world they must decide what’s real and where they truly belong.

Director: Mike Cahill

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: R

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Vince Mancini

Feb 4, 2021

Cahill is so effective at blurring the lines and making both “realities” feel equally plausible that it’s hard not to feel your own reality attenuating as you watch it. Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek, something of an odd couple on paper, are also perfectly cast. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Feb 8, 2021

Trippy and entertaining mind-bender. Read full review

Tara Brady

Feb 5, 2021

Expect head-scratching, some non-sequiturs and lots of quirks and Bliss will mostly entertain and consistently baffle. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Feb 4, 2021

I wish the results were better, and a lot stranger. Cahill’s world-building has its moments, though. And the filmmaker did determine — correctly — that it’d be fun to have Bill Nye, the science guy, in a bow tie, portraying a sniffy scientific researcher. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Feb 2, 2021

As with both of his previous works, the filmmaker delivers an undeniably ambitious mind-bender that bites off more than it can narratively chew. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Feb 4, 2021

Life might be messy and weird and scary, but it possesses more honesty than this cinematic misery. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Feb 1, 2021

Completely miscast, egregiously plotted and ludicrous in absolutely every single other way, Bliss is a true cinematic disasterpiece. Read full review

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noxteryn

Feb 10, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's one of the best psychological horror movies I've ever watched. It's about a man suffering from opioid-induced psychotic disorder and spiraling out of control, while his family is desperately trying to help him. From reading people's reviews, it becomes apparent to me that most people didn't even understand what the movie was even about and blame the movie of their own lack of understanding, which is kind of amusing to me.… Expand