Pandaemonium
PolyGram Video | Release Date: June 29, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
New Times (L.A.)Gregory Weinkauf
Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts. Read full review
80
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
Literate and handsome. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement. Read full review
40
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.
40
Village VoiceJessica Winter
The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."
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