Under the Silver Lake
Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) reads signs and clues that may (or may not) lead him to find a woman (Riley Keough, Mad Max: Fury Road) who suddenly disappeared in this surreal mystery-comedy from the writer-director of It Follows.
- Director:
- David Robert Mitchell ('It Follows', 'The Myth of the American Sleepover')
- Writer:
- David Robert Mitchell
- Cast:
- Andrew GarfieldRiley KeoughJimmi SimpsonTopher GraceRiki LindhomeZosia MametCallie HernandezPatrick Fischler
Reviews & comments
Vox
pressIt's no Mulholland Drive, but the point of Under the Silver Lake rhymes with themes from David Lynch's masterpiece: that lifetimes of watching others has instructed us in how to be watched ourselves.
Variety
pressAmbitious and fascinating. It's the first Mitchell film that truly held me, the first that feels like the work of a potentially major artist...
Vanity Fair
pressReally, though, Under the Silver Lake's most easily definable problem is a simple one: it's a little dull.
Time Out
pressIt's the kind of raggedy-ass thriller that only gets made when a young filmmaker, emboldened by success, moves past virtues of concision, hoping to summon the full, meandering spell of a paranoid dream. Don't hold it against him.
The Times
pressIf you were being charitable you could paint the film as a satire on the primitive male psyche and its consequences for women. If that's the case, though, it's awfully well hidden.
Screen Daily
pressIf 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.
Hollywood Reporter
pressDespite 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.
Vox
pressIt's no Mulholland Drive, but the point of Under the Silver Lake rhymes with themes from David Lynch's masterpiece: that lifetimes of watching others has instructed us in how to be watched ourselves.
Variety
pressAmbitious and fascinating. It's the first Mitchell film that truly held me, the first that feels like the work of a potentially major artist...
Vanity Fair
pressReally, though, Under the Silver Lake's most easily definable problem is a simple one: it's a little dull.
Time Out
pressIt's the kind of raggedy-ass thriller that only gets made when a young filmmaker, emboldened by success, moves past virtues of concision, hoping to summon the full, meandering spell of a paranoid dream. Don't hold it against him.
The Times
pressIf you were being charitable you could paint the film as a satire on the primitive male psyche and its consequences for women. If that's the case, though, it's awfully well hidden.
Screen Daily
pressIf 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.
Hollywood Reporter
pressDespite 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.
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