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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
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.
Top CriticThe dismal subject matter is beautifully shot, but Tideland merrily dances on the line between the merely unpleasant and the completely unwatchable.
Top CriticLewis Carroll unnerves us today far more than Hitchcock, but plenty of viewers won't thank Gilliam for going there.
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.
Deeply disappointing.
Gilliam is as inventive as ever addressing this fascinating, important topic, but it's a very hard film to watch.
Tideland contains more shining, jewel-like moments than most films. It will reward your patience.
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This time [Gilliam] has stumbled into a different no-man’s land, the one between the merely bad and the completely indefensible.
Top CriticThe film has nary a gram of human reality or compassion anywhere in it.
Horrendous and terrible and borderline unwatchable -- the most depressing film by a major filmmaker in recent memory.
Becomes an excruciating exercise in gothic excess and progressively more disgusting imagery.
When the little girl tells her decapititated doll, 'It's not just a bad dream,' she is right. It's just a bad movie.
It's yet another example of the undeniably imaginative filmmaker (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys) frittering away a movie with ugly visuals and even more unpleasant behavior.
Terry Gilliam’s first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier.
Never quite coheres . . . But Gilliam has still made an admirable--and, at times, daring--oddity . . . disturbingly different from most celluloid childhoods.
This is supposed to be a comedy, but it's not easy to laugh at the dire situation that surrounds this innocent girl.
if there was ever a film to end a career, Tideland is it.
Well, I'm Chris Hewitt, and I have a confession to make: I hated this film.
It seems, from the flat-out filmic disaster of "Tideland," that director Terry Gilliam is intent on ensuring a decisive end to his checkered filmmaking career.
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