Blu-rays, DVDs & more
eBay affliate link
Art of the Movies
Buy posters on MoviePoster.com
IMDb
Stay movie stills
Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Though visual prodigies abound, the nightmare never gets real enough. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: This is the kind of flop that makes even the popcorn taste lousy. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Stay is crowded with layers and symbols, probably too many for one movie, and it ultimately wears out its welcome. But its images are compelling, even as its story fades away. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: There's a lot of talent at work here from the cast to the screenwriter to the director and the visuals, but it's all so arbitrary and cheap and the payoff is so, so lame. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's a puzzle that tells you not to blatantly trust what you see. It just asks you to trust the wonders of the imagination -- from whatever direction it comes. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: The visual effects, especially those used to enhance the metaphysical elements, are impressive, but the story lacks that certain something. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's worse than bad. It's mediocre. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The final twist does more to unravel what's come before than to tie it all together, making what's come before feel like a cosmopolitan goose chase. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: It's hard to imagine a film more perversely obtuse than this dark, grim exercise in cinematic sleight of hand. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A great big blurry mess. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: The brain power you expend making sense of it is better spent elsewhere. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Maybe he's also Sam. Or an aspect of Sam. Or else Sam is an aspect of Henry. Maybe Henry is an aspect of Lila. Maybe what we think is reality is all an illusion. Maybe illusion is actually reality. Maybe we're all jacked into the Matrix. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Stay, it won't. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: A steaming compost heap of high-art pretense and half-cocked psychoanalysis. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: After an hour or so, despite the heroic efforts of cast and crew, torpor and impatience slither between the movie's trapdoors. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Too bad that when it comes time to finally produce a rabbit from his top hat, all Forster can manage is a mouse. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Whether you guess the ending early or have it smack you upside the head, the result is the same: You'll be out the price of a ticket. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Stay is a heartless puzzle that builds no empathy for its characters, no pathos at all, as it is giving us many cryptic clues that don't really lead to that finale. It's an intellectual exercise, not an emotional one. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Stay is interesting, but it's hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similarity to their favorite auteur's scent. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: When the movie is over, and we know all that is to be known, it deserves some thought. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: S lot of talent gets expended in Stay. (I'm not including whoever dressed McGregor.) Too bad the movie they made, while effective in short spurts, is almost a complete waste of time. Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: A pretty package that's empty on the inside. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Gosling and McGregor deliver beyond-the-call-of-duty performances that hold you riveted even when the story goes silly. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Sometimes artful doesn't make up for annoying. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Most will likely sniff this one out for what it is, a would-be mystery thriller with pretensions to being something more that actually delivers a good deal less. Read more
Rachel Aviv, Village Voice: In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Ultimately empty. Read more