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Movie Overview
Cast
• Julia Ormond
• Bill Pullman
• Pell James
Director
• Jennifer Lynch
MPAA Rating
R - for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some drug use and a scene of aberrant sexuality
Surveillance (2009)

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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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4/5
"Although her tale involves wild-at-heart lovers racing down a lost highway, Lynch has created a whole different shade of black from anything made by her father."  Little White Lies  Anton Bitel

B-
"Doesn't exactly leap off the screen as a diamond example of procedural crime busting cinema, but taken as the next professional step for Lynch, it's an efficient mood piece, setting out to unnerve and baffle, and achieving most of its goals."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

3/5
"Surveillance isn't rewriting history, but it's a solid, entertaining third draft."  Filmcritic.com  Chris Cabin

D-
"From the looks of her latest cinematic abomination, it seems Jennifer Lynch is doomed to forever be regarded as David Lynch%u2019s untalented daughter."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

"The film's late, unprepared-for perversity turnabout undoes what has gone before."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Donald J. Levit

"It is staggering to think that a film could be so horrifically nihilistic and so painfully boring at the same time, but Lynch has done it."  DVD Review  Felix Gonzalez Jr.

1/4
"Enervated and uselessly ugly."  Slant Magazine  Fernando F. Croce

7/10
"Véritable bombe à retardement, Surveillance est surtout un thriller qui ose prendre son temps, faisant évoluer chaque parcelle de sa production à la même vitesse..."  Panorama  Jean-François Vandeuren

"A taut, nihilistic, exercise in heartland desolation, and unlike most films whose success is predicated on an 11th-hour twist, it plays 100% fair: The truth is out there from the beginning, if you're willing to see it."  Miss FlickChick  Maitland McDonagh

"[S]low-boil sinister, delivering the kind of simmering menace that few films can bother to take the time for these days..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

"A nasty little slice of backwater depravity."  Cinematical  Nick Schager

"There are a couple of admittedly arresting images on display here and there--not enough to make this film worth watching but enough to make you hope that it doesn't take Lynch another 16 years to make another one."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

"Jennifer is no David Lynch and her film, while inventive and quirky and at time quite devious, misses the organic alchemy of his films."  Seanax.com  Sean Axmaker

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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