Electric Slide
| Release Date: April 3, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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2
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3
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75
New York PostKyle SmithApr 1, 2015
Dryly comic, arch, sleek, and suffused with mood-setting tracks by the likes of X and Depeche Mode, Electric Slide has some of the mordant absurdity of the novels of Bret Easton Ellis. Like its dim hero, it’s going nowhere, but traveling in style. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckApr 2, 2015
It's historically accurate, since Electric Slide is set in 1983, but it only emphasizes the hollow emptiness of this faux New Wave-style crime drama that emphasizes style over substance to an enervating degree. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineWes GreeneMar 30, 2015
Like the characters, the film's exterior flash can't conceal a glaring emptiness. Read full review
30
Village VoiceErnest HardyMar 31, 2015
Patterson seems more concerned with getting the surfaces right (costume design, production design) than tapping any of the adrenaline that should be pumping through bank robberies, love scenes, and confrontations with barking loan sharks — adrenaline we should feel even if the protagonist is meant to be cucumber-cool. Read full review
20
The DissolveScott TobiasApr 2, 2015
With familiar faces like Arquette and Sevigny turning up in nothing roles, the film looks like a cheap, underproduced facsimile of the crime movies it’s trying to emulate. It goes down in a blaze of hoary. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezApr 15, 2015
Tiresomely told, uninteresting, and turgid, Electric Slide is as insipid as it gets — a meaningless movie about almost nothing at all. Read full review
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