Southland Tales
Destination Films | Release Date: November 14, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
9
Negative:
10
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38
PremiereGlenn Kenny
There's a lot of "stuff" here, and Kelly's biggest problem -- he's got more than a few -- is that he can't tell his good material from his bad. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Southland Tales does have enough energy and audacity to suggest significant potential. But was it ready for public consumption? The answer is no. It's as simple as that. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
The English term "shambolic" best describes a slow-paced, bloated and self-indulgent picture that combines science fiction, sophomoric humor and grisly violence soaked in a music-video sensibility. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Rarely has a picture been so self-consciously designed to be a culturally meaningful touchstone, and fallen so woefully short, as Southland Tales. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
May be ambitious in its genre-defying abandon, sideswiping science fiction, satire, film noir and melodrama along the way, but it's also exasperatingly convoluted, self-amused and politically sophomoric. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
You can't be both political and incoherent, and even though Kelly's models are "Kiss Me Deadly" and "Blade Runner," this vision of the near-future suggests a random blend of "Dr. No" and "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
I recommend that Kelly keep right on cutting until he whittles it down to a ukulele pick. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
A mess, and that's really a shame. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
It appears that Kelly spent the intervening years (since "Donnie Darko") taking hallucinogenic drugs, reading Philip K. Dick novels upside down, and – most disastrously – believing his own hype. Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
If a more incoherent and self-indulgent movie has been released so far this century, I'm not aware of it. Read full review
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