Naqoyqatsi 2002

Critics score:
48 / 100

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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Reggio and Glass so rhapsodize cynicism, with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences, that Glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby. Read more

Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune: A disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by Philip Glass. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: If you're open to the film, it will leave you pondering human fate and asking unanswerable questions. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: This is a film living far too much in its own head. Read more

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The lightest of sensory candy. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence. Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change. Read more

David Chute, L.A. Weekly: Incoherence reigns. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I have problems with Naqoyqatsi as a film, but as a music video it's rather remarkable. Read more

Octavio Roca, San Francisco Chronicle: The sound of Ma's cello alone is reason not to miss Naqoyqatsi. Read more

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Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: The whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral. Read more