The Pink Cloud
Blue Fox Entertainment | Release Date: January 14, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyJan 10, 2022
Gerbase’s insightful, quietly unsettling picture may, right now, be too close to the bone to attract viewers desperate for hard times distraction; but it deserves exposure, and should attract niche sales both on the strength of newsworthiness and on its considerable cinematic achievement. Read full review
90
VarietyGuy LodgeJan 10, 2022
Gerbase’s thoughtful, precise little film would have marked an impressive enough arrival under normal circumstances. As it is, it might endure as more era-evocative than many of the intentional pandemic dramas to come. Read full review
83
The Film StageBrianna ZiglerJan 10, 2022
The Pink Cloud suffocatingly explores what it means to live in a world that no longer exists beyond what we artificially create for ourselves, the consequences of extended loneliness, and the capabilities of human adaptation. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlex SavelievMar 1, 2022
Gerbase studies how loneliness brings out the worst, and sometimes the best, in us. She examines how some of us are more adaptable than others; how we are the products of our environment, creatures of habit. The film can also be viewed as a parable about autocracy, ruthlessly dissecting the abide-or-die mentality. Whatever you take from it, the drama is bound to hover over you for days. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJan 20, 2022
If you’re game for an emerging filmmaking talent’s stingingly uncanny foretelling, The Pink Cloud is an arresting examination of what it can look like when existence is misshaped into a compromised destiny. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJan 13, 2022
Gerbase, making an impressive feature debut, proves herself a sensitive observer of human nature. The Pink Cloud joins a tradition of sci-fi films like Her that are less interested in their futuristic concepts than how they might affect people. Read full review
71
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganJan 10, 2022
The Pink Cloud explores the often reactionary nature of humans, especially when tasked with imagining a future completely uprooted from convention. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJan 21, 2022
The Pink Cloud is so good at portraying our pandemic reality that it becomes harder to discern its other, subtler concerns. I was impressed, agitated, terrified, depressed by this movie — but I also couldn’t help feeling like I had maybe not ultimately seen the film its director wanted me to see. Read full review
70
TheWrapDan CallahanJan 11, 2022
Gerbase shows talent here, but viewing The Pink Cloud requires nerves of steel that might not be available to even the strongest among us at this particular point in time. Read full review
70
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaJan 10, 2022
Without the pandemic, everything here would seem a tad fantastical. Now, we can't help but draw sometimes painful connections. Perhaps it'll hit too close to home. After all, the film makes it clear that there's only so long a person can remain trapped before they start getting desperate. Read full review
67
IndieWireKate ErblandJan 10, 2022
Though Gerbase has conceived of a fascinating, timely inciting incident for her film, much of “The Pink Cloud” eventually melts into all the beats of a standard relationship drama. (And, yes, we mean all the beats.) Read full review
60
The New York TimesClaire ShafferJan 13, 2022
Even as the lockdown accelerates intimacy and conflict between the protagonists, their actions feel inconsequential compared with the greater world outside. Read full review
60
CineVueMatthew AndersonJan 10, 2022
Rooted in the mundane, but told with an imaginative vision, flair and real composure, The Pink Cloud announces Iuli Gerbase as a new creative talent and filmmaker to watch out for. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJan 19, 2022
It feels sharply, even painfully true, while also hazy and nonspecific. Its head is in the clouds, while its feet are grounded in the very real catastrophe we are all currently suffering through. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comCiara WardlowJan 14, 2022
The intentionality and editorial eye that make the style of this film so compelling feels sorely lacking from the script, which is at once scattered and repetitive. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeJan 10, 2022
After a while, writer-director Iuli Gerbase’s boldly mundane take on forced isolation gives way to a regular sort of mundanity. Read full review
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