Requiem for a Dream
Artisan Entertainment | Release Date: October 6, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

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38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
It's two hours of slumming in a vision of hell hatched from bourgeois comfort. That, and not its unsavory subject matter, is what makes it bummer theater. Read full review
30
Film.comErnest Hardy
Too self-consciously dark, too aware of its long, murky, art-designed descent into the underbelly of America's addictive personality. Read full review
20
Washington PostStephen Hunter
In the end the movie goes nowhere a hundred movies haven't already been and tells us nothing we don't already know. It does so with so much violent energy, however, it's like four brutal years at film school crammed into an hour and a half. Read full review
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