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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversNo one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
- 100Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanPhiladelphia InquirerDesmond RyanAronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten.
- 88New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanA powerful fable about love and addiction that manages to be darkly humorous when it isn't graphic or harrowing in the extreme.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonMay be an elaborate stunt, a bungee jump, but even so, it's forceful enough to leave a rare palpitating residue.
- 63San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisIt's one of the most beautifully unpleasant movies ever made - its reverse charge being that it is no fun at all.
- 60Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonWhile director Aronofsky pistol-whips your attention with his style, the characters (mostly relegated to human mannequins in Aronofsky's visual schemes) suffer big time.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldTo be fair, Aronofsky has a knack for stylistic overkill, and his hammering onslaught is undeniably riveting, at first anyway.
- 30Film.comErnest HardyFilm.comErnest HardyToo self-consciously dark, too aware of its long, murky, art-designed descent into the underbelly of America's addictive personality.
- 20Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterIn the end the movie goes nowhere a hundred movies haven't already been and tells us nothing we don't already know. It does so with so much violent energy, however, it's like four brutal years at film school crammed into an hour and a half.