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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloShot over five nights in a single location, and almost entirely improvised, Coherence is no-budget filmmaking at its most delectably inventive.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisEntertainment WeeklyClark CollisThe wordy end product may be short on demons and murderous droids, yet Coherence is a satisfying and chilling addition to the ever-growing pal-ocalypse subgenre.
- 75Slant MagazineNick PriggeSlant MagazineNick PriggeThe film's impression of personas is less traditionally sinister than representative of its inquiry into identity and what happens when social barriers begin to fall away.
- 75New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartWriter/director James Ward Byrkit, in his feature debut, achieves effective chills with only eight actors and a living room, intermixing quantum physics (shout-outs range from Schrödinger’s cat to “Sliding Doors”) with the very mundane human tendency toward bad judgment calls in a crisis.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfFor a sci-fi indie of vast ambition but limited means, Coherence does a sterling job with coherence.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanByrkit and his actors successfully build a sense of tension, and then dread, from what appears to be an extremely limited budget. Indeed, the movie was shot primarily in his own living room.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThe one thing Coherence needs most is that word that gives it its title.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonThe Rod Serling tension Byrkit is angling for never quite arrives, nor does any real Borgesian frisson. But thanks to its social setting, it does offer a vivid and perhaps intentional satirical portrait of L.A. culture.