Mysterious Object at Noon
Plexifilm | Release Date: November 1, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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80
VarietyDeborah Young
Result is a weird hodgepodge that has the audience doing mental somersaults in an attempt to keep up with this highly original festival head-scratcher. Read full review
80
CineVueBen Nicholson
So many thematic and tonal elements of Weerasethakul's later, more celebrated films, are evident in Mysterious Object at Noon that it would be easy to consider as a formative exercise alone, but even as he began to explore these fertile soils, he was creating a work of captivating and arresting beauty. Read full review
80
Village VoiceChuck Stephens
Far from an empty vessel, the film encourages an ever increasing proliferation of odd topics and perspectives. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Weerasethakul mixes fact, fiction and filmmaking into a blend that's intriguingly obtuse, yet surprisingly revelatory. Read full review
75
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Experimental films are frequently criticized for being boring because they say and do too little, but the best of them put us in exhilarating overdrive because they offer too much. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
All of this free association falls under the wide umbrella of "experimental" cinema, meaning that the often flagging pace and incoherent stretches are balanced by sublime moments of inspiration. Read full review
70
The New York TimesElvis Mitchell
Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture. Read full review
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