I found it appropriate that I had trouble looking away.
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11/20/02
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:98
Rotten:25
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Though the movie may be too intense for some to stomach, the wonderful performances and the bleak imagery are hard to forget.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronofsky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 novel REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the... [More]
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Reviews for Requiem for a Dream
As he did in his stunning debut, director Darren Aronofsky shows himself to be keenly tuned into the imagery of the living hell.
10/15/02
What an inappropriately drowsy title for such an explosive film.
09/10/02
No, it's not a movie for the faint of heart. Aronofsky has designed "Requiem" as a kind of psychotic symphony, in which the mundane becomes ever more menacing as the quartet free-fall into their own separate hells.
06/10/02
...will leave those who decide to take the chance feeling winded by the time the credits roll. Maybe even terrified.
05/25/02
No review available.
04/05/02
Top CriticThis Dream doesn't stir much beyond stereotype.
03/24/02
... when the process of finding this meaning is mired in the storyteller's self-indulgent tendencies and harrowing repetitious visuals, the effort is rendered reprehensible.
03/06/02
Unfortunately, I think Requiem for a Dream film fails to successfully meld style with substance.
03/05/02
One of the most nihilistic films I have ever seen.
02/28/02
If this film doesn't convince a drug addict to abandon their habit, no outside influence can be expected to. Pure and simply, this is Requiem For a Nightmare.
11/27/01
A dream you won't soon forget.
10/10/01
Jamás se ha visto algo así en la narración de la espiral asociada al mundo de las drogas...
08/30/01
Es una cinta de esas que se quedan grabadas fuertemente en la mente, provocando lo que casi ninguna cinta de esta época de verano consigue: hacer pensar y reflexionar
07/27/01
You're going to see real actors in their highest form.
05/21/01
[It] may be a bummer to some audiences, so harsh is its view of the drug culture. But no one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
05/08/01
The film traces without flinching the arc of addiction from its escapist beginnings to its inevitable, all-too-real devastations.
04/16/01
[Requiem for a Dream is] dirty and realistic, all the things necessary for a brilliant drug movie.
03/19/01
a masterpiece of subjective filmmaking
02/27/01
It's a film that burrows under the skin, latches on to a viewer, and refuses to let go.
02/22/01
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