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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   1   "Linklater's most visually distinctive movie, with exquisitely detailed renderings ... that are at the same time unstable, floaty, in a way perfect for a dreamed reality."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale "Explorar estas preguntas, y hacerlo de una forma tan grata en lo visual, es una forma de expresar júbilo, gozo por la vida, ...y por el cine y la animación."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez C "little more than isolated--and not terribly fulfilling--masturbation"   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna 5/5 "Waking Life takes a peek into that other ninety percent of the possibilities of the cinematic medium that nobody ever explores. Hopefully, others will follow."   Film Threat   Chris Barsanti "The movie asks you to be awake as you watch it, so you are not consuming so much as you are processing, in a very self-conscious way."   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "Sitting through "Waking Life" is like being trapped in a painting filled with philosophy students"   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1/4 "The novelty of the much-lauded animation style wears off about halfway through, with the end result a film that's more interminable than anything else."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair A+ "The film is a non-stop idea fest told in the form of real conversations people have."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Forces a non-stop barrage of pseudo-deep theories and questions on the viewer that, more often than not, resemble a bunch of psycho-babbly hooey."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 4/4 "Whether it's a product of stoic contemplation or reefer madness, Linklater's waking life becomes an elusive, one-way vehicle to God."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B+ "An unusual and intriguing film full of philosophy and social theories."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C- "A pretentious snoozer...While there's a good deal in the picture to excite the eye, there's not much to stimulate the ear or...to engage the mind."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "A visionary animated film of deep play that is stylistically innovative and spiritually rich in content."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "It ends up staying with you long after the jittery animated images have faded from the screen."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/4 "a film for anyone who has ever wondered about life, about what it means to be human, about where the division between dreams and reality really is"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 5/5 "Digital video + digital animation + ancient questions = A visionary, stunning examination of the big picture."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Not fond of abstract observation in its rawest form, I found myself on the verge of discourse-induced slumber."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 9/10 "Innovatively animated, philosophically curious, and a perfect representation of a dream world ... a marvelous work of art."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen D+ "It's so bogged down in grand proclamations about Truth and Spiritual Communion and Collective Memory that it never strikes a single personal note, one that can be connected to on a purely emotive level."   Matinee Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 4/4 "The film celebrates community to a greater extent than any narrative film I can think of."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 4/10 "The theater in which I saw this flick had 10 people in it when it started, and by the time it was over, only 5 people survived. Unfortunately, I had to be one of them"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 1.5/5 "... a commercial ripoff designed to confuse art-house patrons into thinking they are watching something profound."   ToxicUniverse.com   John A. Nesbit 4/10 "...one does expect it to say something of importance, you see, but it never does. For me, it was a classic case of the Emperor having no clothes."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 8/10 "A terrific new picture that, despite playing tricks with your eyes and making your head hurt as you begin to obsess about your own dreams, is worth every single, precious minute."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "Fascinates and occasionally nauseates, like trying to read a book in a car driving along thirty miles of dirt road."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 3.5/4 "Sus inquietantes discursos y preguntas sin respuesta se mantendrán en la mente del espectador mucho tiempo después de haber abandonado la sala de cine."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade "My companion did enjoy it, and my friend with a degree in philosophy will also probably enjoy it, but overall I found it pretentious, tiresome, pedantic, and one-note."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 4/4 "You watch movies. A lot of movies. Some good, some not so good. Once in a while, you see one and you're like, whoa, now this is something else."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B "an interesting, thought provoking experiment"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4/4 "It’s quite safe to say that films like Waking Life come about once in a blue moon."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 7/10 "It is rare to find a feature film that is even plays in stylistic fields this far from the norm."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 3.5/4 "Linklater deserves many congratulations and possibly a few awards."   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 3.5/4 "A plotless rumination on the nature of dreams, reality, and identity doesn't sound like the most mesmerizing of movie experiences, but Richard Linklater has managed that feat."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 5/5 "The most visionary, beautiful, awe-inspiring, and life-affirming cartoon I have ever seen. It's near the top of the list for any film."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/5 "Animation serves the dialogue in this movie as it served the music in “Fantasia...” The monologues themselves are like jazz improvisations, wildly playful..."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3.5/5 "The visuals are extraordinary, the kind of thing usually reserved for a 5-minute short. But we never get tired of watching it."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "A true independent film that uses animation techniques to their utmost."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 3/4 "It isn't a great film, but it is important in a historical sense."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "Richard Linklater flexes his creative muscle in a unique way."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/10 "The overall effect of Waking Life is that of finally escaping a cocktail party full of ecstasy-laden philosophy students."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg B- ""Waking Life" is "Slacker" remade as a navel-gazing series of monologues, structured like a Bunuel dream farce and run through a computer paint program."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Exhilarating, transporting, funny and haunting -- and at times maddeningly heady or narcotically logy -- Waking Life doesn't compare to any other movie experience I've ever had."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/4 "The trick to flying, the late Douglas Adams suggested, is to fall but to miss the ground."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 5/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   1