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Rated R · 1h 36m
Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. With many personalities at play, there are already tensions among the group. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
To say Climax was a bad trip is tantamount to saying that the Donner Party was a friendly cookout. More anxiety-inducing and nightmarish than Aronofsky’s Mother! (2017) sans the heavy-handed allegory, Climax is a hysterical, depraved look at the black hole of drug-induced psychosis and the complete disintegration of the self (and I say this as a compliment). While surprisingly tame for a Noe film (which isn’t saying much), this would definitely have to be my favorite of his in light of the emotionally disjointed, practically alien performances of the dancers and the gradual build-up of the psychedelic terror into a fever-pitch of misery.
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WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Emily Yoshida
IndieWire by Eric Kohn
The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia
The Playlist by Jessica Kiang
Screen International by Jonathan Romney
CineVue by Martyn Conterio
Variety by Owen Gleiberman
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy