Gilliam is as inventive as ever addressing this fascinating, important topic, but it's a very hard film to watch.
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09/23/06
Tideland (2006)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:19
Rotten:51
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Tideland is a disturbing, and mostly unwatchable effort from Terry Gilliam.
Theatrical Release:11-08-2006
Synopsis: Terry Gilliam, the director of such fantasies as TIME BANDITS, BRAZIL, and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, tells a very different kind of story in TIDELAND. Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Terry Gilliam
Reviews for Tideland
Deeply disappointing.
09/23/06
Tideland contains more shining, jewel-like moments than most films. It will reward your patience.
09/23/06
Top CriticThe dismal subject matter is beautifully shot, but Tideland merrily dances on the line between the merely unpleasant and the completely unwatchable.
09/23/06
Top CriticLewis Carroll unnerves us today far more than Hitchcock, but plenty of viewers won't thank Gilliam for going there.
09/28/06
There are some impressive visual moments but ultimately this is like watching an annoying child running around and shrieking about her imaginary friends for two hours.
09/23/06
Gilliam’s brash disregard for conventional narrative rhythms and structures is one of the many thrills of his best work, but here his freewheeling navigations veer so far off-road that the passenger is left exhausted and bewildered.
09/23/06
Top CriticTideland is flawed but it's still a must-see for anyone who considers themselves a fan of Gilliam.
11/12/06
Tideland's unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard.
10/19/06
Top CriticPerhaps once we leave these squeamish times, Tideland will emerge like one of Welles' later films as a misunderstood classic.
10/27/06
if there was ever a film to end a career, Tideland is it.
10/12/06
However misguided and off-the-mark Tideland may be, you can't say that it lacks artistic merit.
01/26/07
What we get, sadly, is easily the worst production Gilliam has ever been involved in, either behind the camera or in front of it. Tideland is, by turns, a complete bore and a creepy experience. And I don't mean 'creepy' in a positive sense.
10/11/06
Terry Gilliam’s first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier.
10/18/06
The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito: Nicola Pecorini's cinematography has verve but no visual sense, and the film's self-important pace turns deadening over the long haul.
10/27/06
When Jeliza-Rose announces in the first scene, 'Today, we're all going on a great trip!', know that it's to the center of an emotional black hole.
10/26/06
Not for the faint-hearted, to be sure, yet amid the swaying chaff there are moments of piercing grace and beauty when we're reminded of the lost, lonely child at the heart of this tale.
10/19/06
A diary of pain and a chronicle of the armour of mythology an imaginative mind expels to salve it away.
10/23/06
Tideland is Gilliam unrestrained to be sure, and the result is a picture that has no chance at commercial success whatsoever %u2014 but a great shot at upsetting many a right-wing politico at the very least.
10/17/06
The literal train wreck that caps the film is an apt metaphor for this hallucinatory fiasco.
11/02/06
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