Surveillance
Magnet Releasing | Release Date: June 26, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
6
Negative:
5
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83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon." Read full review
60
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Surveillance is the work of a director who has made significant strides in both storytelling and control of the medium, deftly interweaving a grisly thriller, a sicko "Rashômon," a switcheroo, a psychotic love story, an imaginative paean to children, and an inspired resurrection of Julia Ormond. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
Surveillance will please the B-movie crowd in theaters and on into the ancillaries Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
Either a ludicrously bad movie or a parody of same. Either way, it's pretty funny. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Surveillance suggests "Jennifer Lynchian" should be used for films that aspire to David’s moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short. Read full review
40
Film ThreatScott Mendelson
In the end, Surveillance is a puzzle box film that has nothing to offer except the various puzzle pieces. The characters do not stand out, the drama is not compelling, and the screenplay is light on even remotely interesting dialogue. Read full review
40
VarietyLeslie Felperin
A mildly amusing trifle with one of the genre's dafter plot twists. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
At the end, all is horrifically explained, the body count inflates, yet hardly anything makes sense. In Papa Lynch's films, little is explained, yet because he's so gifted at mining our deepest fears and scariest desires, logic is excused. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance - "enjoyable," in the relative sense - is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)James Adams
Whether madcap parody – the "American Psycho" of G-man flicks – or walk on the wild side of Lynch's obsessions, the film's a failure. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The performances are dreadful, the direction shoddy and the final twist so idiotic, your mind can’t help but drift toward all the better scripts just waiting, sadly and silently, for the chance wasted here. Read full review
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The New York TimesManohla Dargis
It seems doubtful that Surveillance, a would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering, would be taking up space in theaters if its director were not the daughter of a name filmmaker. Read full review
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