Schizopolis

Name: Schizopolis
Genre: Comedy
Released: April 9, 1997
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 44

1997

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Criterion Collection, The | Release Date: April 9, 1997 | Not Rated

Summary: Placing the onus squarely on the viewer ("If you don't understand this film, it's your fault and not ours"), writer/director/editor/cameraman Soderbergh presents a deranged comedy of confused identity, doublespeak,
and white-knuckled corporate intrigue, confirming his status as one of America's most daring and unpredictable filmmakers.Placing the onus squarely on the viewer ("If you don't understand this film, it's your fault and not ours"), writer/director/editor/cameraman Soderbergh presents a deranged comedy of confused identity, doublespeak,
and white-knuckled corporate intrigue, confirming his status as one of America's most daring and unpredictable filmmakers. (The Criterion Collection)… Expand

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Dallas Observer Andy Klein

At first glance, Schizopolis may seem like no more than a grab-bag of tricks and gimmicks, but repeat viewings reveal a more coherent pattern. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

It's fresh, unexpected and goofy. It's not a smart career move, just a film that its director wanted to make for some crazy reason, and he made it. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Fast-paced and ambitious, it never bores, and Soderbergh proves himself interesting to watch in addition to being gifted behind the camera. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

When it works, it's the best film of the year. When it doesn't, take cover. Read full review

Janet Maslin

It winds up illustrating the very emptiness it mocks. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

A painfully self-conscious comedy that mistakes relentless self-referentiality for cleverness, this half-witted misfire is filled with accelerated motion, repeated and overlapping scenes, direct address to the camera and other cliches of defamiliarization. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Some of the filmmaker's keen intelligence remains on display, but only in fractured and often obscure form, and pic overall gives the impression of a giant expurgation of negative feelings about things in general rather than a carefully articulated brief on recognizable subjects. Read full review

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