Naqoyqatsi
Miramax Films | Release Date: October 18, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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The New York TimesStephen Holden
By far the grimmest of these nonnarrative, nonverbal cinematic tone poems with epic ambitions. Although none of the three could be described as cheery, Naqoyqatsi, whose title is the Hopi Indian term for war as a way of life, reeks of doomsday. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Dense collage of digitally altered images often looks shockingly like some super-hip media agency's show reel. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderBill Stamets
This is more like "The Sixth Sense" writ large: we are all dead but don't know it. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPhil Hall
Sadly, Naqoyqatsi quickly degenerates into a monotonous skein of banal images which strangely reinforces the message that we're living in a damn dull society. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Part of what made "Koyaanisqatsi" such a revelation was its purely cinematic dependence on unconstructed imagery. Here, he adds a parade of religious, corporate, and political icons, and what's already preachy turns heavy-handed. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Possessed of another outstanding wall-to-wall score by Philip Glass but rather fuzzy in its message, entry differs from its predecessors in that roughly 80% of its images are derived from existing sources and have been "tortured and recontextualized" to unusual and sometimes extreme effect. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
Incoherence reigns. Read full review
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