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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe ambition of Under the Silver Lake is worth cherishing. It will either evaporate into nothingness or cohere into something you’ll want to hug for being so wonderfully weird.
- 83The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThe Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThe plot’s construction might be derivative, but its serpentine execution is flawless, providing enough crazy turns and zany characters to sustain an escalating momentum for Silver Lake‘s nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime.
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonIf the destination ultimately proves a little less satisfying than the trip, Mitchell and his collaborators fill us with so many moody reveries that we succumb to its warped logic and indelible vividness.
- 75The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe pervasive but almost offhand menace is supplied by Mitchell’s impeccable, widescreen mise-en-scène; the ordinary dread he locates in an unglamorous, mundane L.A.; and the way even the film’s comedy seems perched on the edge of unease.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNew York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaLike any conspiracy theorist, you sense that landing on an actually airtight unified theory would almost spoil the fun for Mitchell.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanUnder the Silver Lake gets its hooks in you, but it’s a good-bad movie: an academic stab at making the darkness visible.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDespite a compelling lead in Andrew Garfield, the tension dissipates rather than mounts as this knotty neo-noir slides into a Lynchian swamp of outre weirdness.
- 50Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonMitchell has made a stylish, occasionally intriguing film, by turns idiosyncratically funny and downright scary. But he says and shows a lot of bothersome things throughout, which I’m not quite sure how to approach.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis film just wades into a murky lake of self-consciousness and sinks inexorably to the bottom.