Metacritic Movie Ratings
Upstream Color Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-Times

  A romance, a thriller, and a science-fiction drama, Upstream Color tantalizes viewers with an open-ended narrative about overcoming personal loss.

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• 80

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  This is a warmer, less foreboding picture than "Primer," not moving in any conventional sense, but suffused with emotion all the same.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  With its fragmentation and mysteries, Upstream Color offers itself up as a puzzle as well as a philosophical toy that you can spin and spin until the cafe closes and kicks you into the night.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy

  Upstream Colors certainly is something to see if you’re into brilliant technique, expressive editing, oblique storytelling, obscuritanist speculative fiction or discovering a significant new actress.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Village VoiceStephanie Zacharek

  To be bewildered by Upstream Color is to be human; the story is obtuse by design, though the filmmaking is X-Acto precise. But it's a bloodless movie, and its ideas aren't as tricky or complex as Carruth's arch, mannered approach might suggest.

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