Enter the Void

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Many flashbacks to the children's early trauma, along with other scenes, are unnecessarily repeated several times.

Time Out by David Fear

A strong contender for both the artiest drug movie and the druggiest art movie ever made, Gaspar Noé's tour de force of forced perspectives and free-form grief is, in every sense of the word, a trip.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

French director Gaspar Noe has kept a pretty low profile since his 2002 drama "Irreversible" notorious for its brutal nine-minute anal rape scene. But this epic, psychedelic mindfuck confirms him once again as the cinema's most imaginative nihilist.

NPR by Mark Jenkins

Confrontational and hyperactive, Enter the Void is a difficult film to experience. That's not because Noe is somehow inept. The Argentina-born French writer-director knows exactly what he's doing and what effect his swirling camera, exuberant colors and strobelike effects will have.

Boxoffice Magazine by Ray Greene

Enter the Void was never going to be another "Avatar." It won't be another "Irreversible" either.

Variety by Rob Nelson

Not clever enough to be truly pretentious.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Suffice to say, unrelenting material like this isn't for everybody. That it is a gloriously filmic gesture - by turns jaw-dropping, elusive, silly, obnoxious, painful and beautiful - is celebration enough.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Enter The Void is a trance-like experience, feeding the shimmering neon of Tokyo at night into a spectacular hallucinogenic head-trip.

Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek

A picture that's by turns inventive, tender and boring, and one that uses a variety of novelty point-of-view techniques: If Penisvision isn't your thing, then Vagin-o-rama just might float your boat.