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- 2019
- R
- A24
- 2 h 19 m
- 2019
- R
- A24
- 2 h 19 m
Summary Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspira...
Directed By: David Robert Mitchell
- 2019
- R
- A24
- 2 h 19 m
- 2019
- R
- A24
- 2 h 19 m
Under the Silver Lake
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6.7
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Summary Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspira...
Directed By: David Robert Mitchell
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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52% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
60
52% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
42% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
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The ambition of Under the Silver Lake is worth cherishing. It will either evaporate into nothingness or cohere into something you’ll want to hug for being so wonderfully weird.
If the destination ultimately proves a little less satisfying than the trip, Mitchell and his collaborators fill us with so many moody reveries that we succumb to its warped logic and indelible vividness.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 114 User Ratings
6.7
65% Positive
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
19% Mixed
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22 Ratings
16% Negative
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18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 114 User Ratings
6.7
65% Positive
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
19% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
16% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
To say I was anticipating this film would be a massive understatement. I wanted to wait to see it in theaters but I had another 4 months to go and I couldn’t hold out any longer so I streamed it so long ago. I will definitely be rewatching this over-and-over again in the coming months so I won’t try to capture all my feelings right now but I pretty much loved every single aspect of Under the Silver Lake. Andew Garfield’s performance and character are very different than I was expecting but they were fantastic. The overall style and tone of this film is so deliberate, creative, and wonderful to engage in. Even though it gets very dark at times, the film always manages to feel almost upbeat in its presentation. The constant sense of paranoia helps create the unique atmosphere that’s captured beautifully for the entire runtime. Funny, creepy, confusing, exciting, and just entertaining as hell in every single moment. Everything about this worked for me and I’m probably going to watch it again in a few days because I can’t stop thinking about it.
Grade: A+
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The pervasive but almost offhand menace is supplied by Mitchell’s impeccable, widescreen mise-en-scène; the ordinary dread he locates in an unglamorous, mundane L.A.; and the way even the film’s comedy seems perched on the edge of unease.
Under the Silver Lake never finds a reason for being as weird as it is, making for a confusing and frustrating experience despite its hypnotic visuals and great score.
A sort of high-gloss, nicely crafted daydream with a good score and generous references to LA noir films.
Despite a compelling lead in Andrew Garfield, the tension dissipates rather than mounts as this knotty neo-noir slides into a Lynchian swamp of outre weirdness.
This film just wades into a murky lake of self-consciousness and sinks inexorably to the bottom.
I saw it with 3 people and we all loved it. This movie goes all in on its own insanity. I applaud the filmmakers and producers for their bravery to make this a reality. There are scenes that you will see nowhere else and jokes so insular to the movie’s logic that they could not have been conceived before that scene was being written. It makes you feel along for the ride in that way. But just when you think it’s all being made up one scene at a time, you’ll get a clue that reminds you this is actually all a well thought out tapestry even if you suspect that you can never fully explain it using ordinary logic.
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It's an interesting movie in concept. The elements of the noir genre are quite good. The music is excellent and the actors can't even be said, but nevertheless, the bad things it has are impossible to ignore, the nudity in the movie It lacks purpose it's just there because of the impact and there are too many scenes that one could cut and not affect the plot. I feel that these scenes were made out of pure pretense, which makes the movie look bad. I really think that with a good editing and cutting all the stupid scenes that don't contribute anything, there's a good movie
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Pretense is the name of the game with this film. It has moments of intrigue but isn't interesting. It's biggest offense is over staying it's welcome at 2 1/2 hours. It's just too damn long to convey such a menial plot
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Production Company
Vendian Entertainment,
Stay Gold Features,
Good Fear Content,
Michael De Luca Productions,
PASTEL,
UnLTD Productions,
Salem Street Entertainment,
Boo Pictures,
P2 Films
Release Date Apr 19, 2019
Duration 2 h 19 m
Rating R
Tagline What are they hiding?
Awards
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
