For the Plasma
| Release Date: July 22, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJul 20, 2016
The movie’s visual prose, aided by simple but fanciful camera work, has an original, giddy spin; Bryant and Molzan’s smooth and floaty direction sublimates the rocky landscape into something disturbingly ethereal. Read full review
83
The PlaylistJason OoiJul 20, 2016
For the Plasma immediately throws its viewer into the deep end. Unique beyond measure, its mumblecore, indie affectation is contradicted by a bold ambition in the form of big, complex ideas which don’t always make sense in reality, but pave the way for some interesting insights. Read full review
80
Village VoiceDanny KingJul 20, 2016
For the Plasma finds genuine, almost innocent-seeming delight in its own swerves in style and rhythm. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 20, 2016
The meta-oddity of For the Plasma is certainly not for everyone, but it’s such a charmingly strange film, a movie that feels devoid of the cynicism that often plagues every genre from which it cribs, but particularly modern sci-fi and low-budget cinema. It is a movie that is happily strange, joyfully bizarre and particularly unforgettable. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 20, 2016
Not as committed to its spacey perceptuo-metaphysical premise as it seems at the start, the film seems more interested in whether one woman can convince another to buy into a project she doesn't understand. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJul 20, 2016
For the Plasma is a film with no shortage of ambition, taste (Maine looks great in 16-millimeter) or ideas. It’s a shame those ideas are so incoherent. Read full review
40
VarietyNick SchagerJul 20, 2016
Only faintly touching upon notions of intuitive collaboration and inspiration, For the Plasma wanders about as if it’s in a fog, ultimately to the point of pointlessness. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenAug 11, 2016
[An] annoyingly oblique exercise in arty affectation. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJul 20, 2016
Three cheers, then, for Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan, whose joint first effort, For The Plasma, ranks among the year’s most singular movies, even as it also ranks among the year’s most painful movies to endure. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineCarson LundJul 19, 2016
The film, whose disparate narrative threads unsurprisingly never connect, drowns in weirdness for its own sake. Read full review
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