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Naked Singularity

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· 2021
1h 34m
Director Chase Palmer
Starring John Boyega, Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgård, Ed Skrein
Genre Crime, Drama

When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, his life begins to unravel.

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San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Strauss

The concept might have worked well on paper. But on screen, at least how Chase Palmer has directed and co-scripted it, those clashing elements exert weak gravitational pull.

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IndieWire by David Ehrlich

Naked Singularity is the work of an untested filmmaker who knows how to streamline but lacks the chutzpah to swing for the fences.

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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

While the concept remains sound as the backdrop for a frustrated public defender choosing the riskier road less traveled to make his mark and a difference when every other version of himself would balk, it has us believing the surreal visual anomalies sprinkled amidst the heist have purpose beyond superficial thematic reinforcement.

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The Playlist by Jonathan Christian

In a parallel universe, perhaps Naked Singularity might have delivered on its bold aspirations, but in the world in which it exists, that is, sadly, not the case.

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RogerEbert.com by Matt Zoller Seitz

There's something off-kilter about it, in a good way. It has a confidence that might not be earned but is still enjoyable to see. It's tapping into something true and knows it.

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Polygon by Robert Daniels

Naked Singularity isn’t a typical courtroom drama. It’s a heist flick, a sci-fi romp, and a message film all rolled into one. And it’s a pretty terrible example of all three genres.

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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Even Spiderverse-savvy Spiderman might consider this singularly confusing, a botched effort to say something scientific-sound and profound in a story that’s basically a lawyer-novelist riffing on “The French Connection,” and doing it badly.

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TheWrap by Simon Abrams

The uniquely underwhelming sci-fi lawyer drama Naked Singularity is a weird mashup of ill-fitting genre tropes and quarter-cooked ideas about social justice and alternate realities.

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