Level Five
Icarus Films | Release Date: August 15, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 14, 2014
It humanely, intelligently questions the very nature of our desire to make sense of the past with the tools of the present, when the human mind remains the most aggressively obliterating battlefield of all. Read full review
100
Time OutKeith UhlichAug 12, 2014
By using Laura as an avatar, Marker actually helps us see the visuals and their knotty meanings much more clearly. The more we watch, the more Laura softens, until — in a mind-bending conceit — her very status as a fictional creation is called into question. The effect is ecstatic. Read full review
100
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneAug 12, 2014
Level Five pictorializes the cruel moment when curiosity encounters tragedy, and the all-too-human abandonment of interest that can follows. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAug 15, 2014
If you can hook into it, Level Five is not just witty, insinuating, and penetrating; it’s also unexpectedly moving and, as deliberately threadbare as it often looks, cinematically rich. Read full review
83
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicAug 18, 2014
The theories in Level Five simultaneously thrive in realms of computer science, ethnography, and cognitive psychology, while the picture remains cloaked by the emotional weight of a historical tragedy that marked an entire nation. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 14, 2014
Its themes are a bit nostalgic and some of its technology looks dated, but there is nothing else in theaters now that feels quite as new. Read full review
80
The DissolveAdam NaymanAug 14, 2014
Level Five doesn’t achieve the poetic heights of Sans Soleil, but that might be because its project is more desultory; where the earlier work merely hints at the difficulty of looking at history without a filter, this sister film all but gives up the ghost. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsSep 27, 2014
Level Five (1996) is a poetic if occasionally opaque film essay on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Read full review
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