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Susan Stark, Detroit News: It's a downer -- and far more because of Aronofsky's vanity than because of Selby's brutally candid story. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: For the strong of stomach and open of mind, Requiem delivers some bravura filmmaking flourishes. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Unfortunately, once Requiem for a Dream accumulates all this elaborate and suggestive paraphernalia, it plummets in an inexorable, almost mechanical spiral. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Mr. Aronofsky draws astonishing performances from his actors. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Film lovers with a high threshold for unpleasantness will get a contact high from Aronofsky's muscular manipulations of imagery and editing. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Aronofsky is so compelling, so visionary a filmmaker, he keeps us riveted to his film as tightly as Sara is to her TV set. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: A staccato narrative parallels the experiences and hallucinations of a woman on drugs with those of her son and his friends. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: It's a dose of speed, and you can't say no. Read more
CNN.com: Once again, a young director with a wildly overpraised debut film has decided to forgo good taste in favor of advertising his own far-reaching "bravery." Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Dazzlingly high filmmaking. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Requiem for a Dream may be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Can a movie be banal and highly original at the same time? If so, that movie is Requiem for a Dream. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: A phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Burnished camerawork and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself head Mansell's part-punchy, part-elegiac score reinforce and counterpoint the increasingly nightmarish visuals. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Requiem for a Dream may be an elaborate stunt, a bungee jump, but even so, it's forceful enough to leave a rare palpitating residue. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: [A] graphically depressing, downward spiral to hell. Read more