Dreamland
Uncork'd Entertainment | Release Date (Streaming): June 5, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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2
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90
Film ThreatLorry KiktaJun 6, 2020
If you can handle a movie with a jam-packed ridiculous narrative that doesn’t entirely solve itself, then you should definitely watch Dreamland. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJun 5, 2020
Strange, challenging and boundlessly confident, this tripped-out noir from the Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (best known for his 2009 horror movie, “Pontypool”) is part lucid dream, part drugged-out nightmare. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerJun 1, 2020
Midnight meets madness in a surrealist exercise in existentialism and deft satire that will unsettle the average viewer while exciting those with freakier tastes. Read full review
58
The Film StageJohn FinkJun 6, 2020
Instead of sinking in, I found myself yearning for the classics it has either been influenced by or is borrowing heavily from. If this were a more academic exercise it should have come with an extensive works cited page. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubWilliam HughesJun 4, 2020
In the end, Dreamland never bothers to decide whether it’s trying to be an elegiac, philosophical head trip or an over-the-top action thriller. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 4, 2020
Wildly episodic in structure and violent in the extreme, Dreamland doesn't fully succeed in sustaining its outlandish conceits. The pacing also drags significantly despite its brief running time, lapsing into a talkiness that provides too much opportunity to pick apart its absurdities. Read full review
40
VarietyJessica KiangJun 6, 2020
For all its salaciousness and scenery-chewing, it’s the dullness of Dreamland that provides further proof that dreams tend to be of fascination mainly — perhaps only — to the dreamer. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloJun 5, 2020
Dreamland is a half-remembered nightmare. It’s full of incomprehensible flashes of striking imagery, most of which won’t make sense in the morning. But in the moment you’re watching Dreamland, you’ll feel the restlessness of its messy story, the fitful starts-and-stops of its erratic editing and the leaden quality of its action sequences, which has all the grace of someone who took a Benadryl pill too early. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJun 4, 2020
If Canadian director Bruce McDonald’s dreams are anything like the disgusting underworld we see in his new movie Dreamland, get the man a doctor. Read full review
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