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Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
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What are critics saying?
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New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf
Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
40
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
70
As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.
80
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Literate and handsome.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
38
Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."
80
Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.