Beyond the Black Rainbow
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: May 18, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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3
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Slant MagazineSimon AbramsMay 15, 2012
Something like a trippy grindhouse homage whose familiar images are refracted through a prism of blacklight posters, Jodorowsky films, and even Rob Zombie's grungy psychotropic sensibility. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreMay 16, 2012
Beyond The Black Rainbow is more surface than substance, but those surfaces are gleamingly polished enough to make for a hypnotic experiment that goes beyond genre pastiche or art-school wankery to seem formally daring. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMark HolcombMay 15, 2012
At heart, the film is no more (or less) than a brilliantly executed lark, but it's not often that we're reminded with such potency that movies are most delightful as sensory experiences. Read full review
80
Time OutMatt SingerMay 15, 2012
Though the finale feels a bit anticlimactic, the lysergic atmosphere, synth-heavy score and logic-resistant story line more than earn Beyond the Black Rainbow's concluding quote, borrowed from another classic midnight movie: "No matter where you go…there you are." See the late show. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 6, 2012
As filmmaking debuts go, Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow is as striking as it is nuts. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMay 18, 2012
Unless you're among those who still drop acid as a midnight-movie apéritif, your enjoyment of this retro oddity remains far from guaranteed. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineInkoo KangJul 1, 2012
Beyond the Black Rainbow is the kind of movie whose cool-looking trailer entices you to midnight screenings, but the film will bore you so profoundly you'll fall asleep halfway and wake up disoriented during the closing credits. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJun 7, 2012
Beyond the Black Rainbow has a doomy, dreamy, druggy, draggy feel that's impressively sustained - until it becomes oppressive, then pointless, then laughable. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMay 17, 2012
Add two more stars here if zoning out to weirdo-dreamy, '80s public-access TV with a synthesizer soundtrack is your idea of midnight fun. Because this ambitious, but not uninteresting, failure has that in its DNA. Read full review
12
New York PostLou LumenickMay 18, 2012
His late father directed "Rambo: First Blood,'' but Panos Cosmatos' debut feature couldn't be more different - this would-be cult classic is the movie equivalent of gazing at a lava lamp for nearly two hours. Read full review
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