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  • 2002
  • PG
  • The Criterion Collection
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2002
  • PG
  • The Criterion Collection
  • 1 h 29 m
Naqoyqatsi

Summary This film merges the power of image and music to plunge into the heart of the hyperaccelerated, globally wired 21st century. Mesmerizing images plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, stream across the screen in synch with a hypnotic score by Philip Glass, featuring the passionate c...

Directed By: Godfrey Reggio

Written By: Godfrey Reggio

  • 2002
  • PG
  • The Criterion Collection
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2002
  • PG
  • The Criterion Collection
  • 1 h 29 m

Naqoyqatsi

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 19 User Ratings
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Summary This film merges the power of image and music to plunge into the heart of the hyperaccelerated, globally wired 21st century. Mesmerizing images plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, stream across the screen in synch with a hypnotic score by Philip Glass, featuring the passionate c...

Directed By: Godfrey Reggio

Written By: Godfrey Reggio

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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35% Mixed
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9% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Its best moments offer a sense of motion-picture poetry that will lift receptive viewers out of their seats.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
75
Reggio, who is sufficiently eager for a large audience that he has allowed his film to be distributed by Miramax, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co., surely one of the villains in his piece, is neither so honest nor so bold (as Moore's "Bowling for Columbine").
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
75
Images wash over you like wind-blown rain, fierce and beautiful at the same time, largely shaped into themes by the haunting music of Philip Glass, who is here joined by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
63
Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
60
By far the grimmest of these nonnarrative, nonverbal cinematic tone poems with epic ambitions. Although none of the three could be described as cheery, Naqoyqatsi, whose title is the Hopi Indian term for war as a way of life, reeks of doomsday.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
40
Possessed of another outstanding wall-to-wall score by Philip Glass but rather fuzzy in its message, entry differs from its predecessors in that roughly 80% of its images are derived from existing sources and have been "tortured and recontextualized" to unusual and sometimes extreme effect.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
20
Pretentious, ponderous and redundant -- You may not need linear narrative to create a great movie, but you do need some original ideas.
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Production Company Miramax, Qatsi Productions
Release Date Oct 18, 2002
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Test-drive the future
Website http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/
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