Escape from Tomorrow
Producers Distribution Agency (PDA) | Release Date: October 11, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
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SalonAndrew O'HehirOct 11, 2013
Disney World, in this incoherent but often amazing work of American psychodrama, has a lot in common with the Overlook Hotel of “The Shining,” the Venice of “Death in Venice” and the booze-soaked Cuernavaca of “Under the Volcano.” It’s a zone of existential dread, the place where masculine dreams go to die, the place where the unburied ghosts of civilization rise up like Mouse-eared, three-fingered zombies and bite us in the ass. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAug 19, 2013
Even as a quasi-experimental work of subjective surrealism, Escape From Tomorrow is massively erratic and isn't particularly original. But it must also be said that its take on Disney World, as well as many of its individual images, are indelible and won’t be easily forgotten. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyOct 25, 2013
The film, shot in black-and-white at canted angles, suggests an R-rated Twilight Zone episode with a twist of Fellini-lite, in a trite film school kind of way. Mickey Mouse is unlikely to be shaking in his big yellow shoes. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 24, 2013
Once you get past the amazement this thing was made at all, the movie itself is an intermittently clever but mostly tedious, convoluted David Lynch knockoff that wanders all over the place. Read full review
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NPRElla TaylorOct 11, 2013
True, Escape From Tomorrow, a handsomely mounted gallery of Mouse House cuteness inverted into grotesquerie, looks a sight more artful than do most home movies. But as an expose of Disney's manufactured happiness, and by extension the sins of corporate capitalism, it's pretty stale news. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 10, 2013
As a movie, Escape From Tomorrow is at best pretty good, but the way it was made makes it something unique, possibly memorable. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 10, 2013
The story of how Moore made the movie is ultimately more interesting than the film he’s put together. It’s not for lack of trying. It’s more a lack of a cogent story. Read full review
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Village VoiceErnest HardyOct 8, 2013
While Escape is filled with inspired touches... Moore lacks the off-kilter psychological nuances of Lynch, as well as the go-for-broke storytelling skills and visual élan. It doesn't help that the cast is largely competent at best. Read full review
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New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 8, 2013
In a word: Bibbidi-bobbidi-blah. Read full review
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanOct 11, 2013
Moore shows promising ingenuity in shooting parts of the movie covertly, within the notoriously restrictive Disney World resort. But his script never takes the same sort of risk. Read full review
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The New York TimesA.O. ScottOct 10, 2013
None of it is as scary or as funny as it should be, and what starts out as a sly thumb in the eye of corporate power ends up as a muddled and amateurish homage to David Lynch. Read full review
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Time OutKeith UhlichOct 8, 2013
What we’re left with are a bunch of unseasoned performers and a first-time filmmaker clearly out of his depth (good lord, those green-screen shots!) hocking loogies at Mickey and friends with hit-and-mostly-miss fervidness. Read full review
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