Slipstream 2007

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: Slipstream is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Slipstream is an experiment in visual stream-of-consciousness, but stream-of-consciousness fares better as a literary form than a cinematic one. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Say this much for Anthony Hopkins' project: If he's going to indulge himself as a writer-director-star, it's probably better that he goes completely off the wall. Read more

Steven Boone, Newark Star-Ledger: Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant. Read more

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Kyle Smith, New York Post: At 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I'm glad that Hopkins has apparently been using the bland, middlebrow stage of his acting career to experiment with massive doses of psychotropic chemicals and open the doors of perception and all that. Next time, maybe he'll just write a manifesto. Read more

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Robert Koehler, Variety: [It] can either be viewed as one huge home movie or a plaything from an actor who has been observing other filmmakers for decades. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Hopkins claims it's a comedy, and perhaps John Turturro's live-action cartoon of a mogul producer suggests so, but what does it all mean? That art can be just as shallow as Hollywood? Read more