Requiem for a Dream can feel like government funded shock therapy for anybody considering picking up a needle or swallowing pills or idealizing false dreams.
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04/02/01
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:98
Rotten:25
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Though the movie may be too intense for some to stomach, the wonderful performances and the bleak imagery are hard to forget.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $2,546,851
Synopsis: For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronofsky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 novel REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the... [More]
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Reviews for Requiem for a Dream
Top CriticRequiem For A Dream is the first great film of the year.
02/09/01
Top CriticRequiem for a Dream is a great movie, and the few of us who see it will be acutely affected.
05/26/06
Dream proves a number of things: the audacity of director Darren Aronofsky's eye, the brilliance of Ellen Burstyn's acting and an apparent poverty of discernment or intelligence on the MPAA ratings board.
01/01/00
Burnished camerawork and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself head Mansell's part-punchy, part-elegiac score reinforce and counterpoint the increasingly nightmarish visuals.
06/24/06
If you like depressing drug movies you should really appreciate this one.
01/01/00
Celebrates the dubious glamour of the junkie lifestyle at the same time it rubs our faces in its inevitable squalor.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
A one of a kind, must-see, moviegoing experience.
01/01/00
Es una cinta de esas que se quedan grabadas fuertemente en la mente, provocando lo que casi ninguna cinta de esta época de verano consigue: hacer pensar y reflexionar
07/27/01
One of those films you both admire and hate for admiring. I liked it in spite of myself.
01/19/01
Requiem for a Dream gets under your skin and stays there.
01/01/00
You'll leave the theater very shaken but at the same time spectacularly impressed.
01/01/00
You're going to see real actors in their highest form.
05/21/01
It becomes so engrossed in the utter squalor of the lives of its characters that it doesn't leave much room for us nonaddicts to identify.
01/01/00
With spareness and unremitting cruelty, Aronofsky shows his characters' accelerated slide to destruction. It's an almost unbearably bleak view and its lack of any obvious redemptive moral message will revolt some.
08/27/01
Top CriticIf this film doesn't convince a drug addict to abandon their habit, no outside influence can be expected to. Pure and simply, this is Requiem For a Nightmare.
11/27/01
So endlessly creative, innovative and imaginative that watching it becomes as much an exercise in joyful discovery as a harrowing descent into depravity.
01/19/01
It's two hours of slumming in a vision of hell hatched from bourgeois comfort.
01/01/00
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