An amazing and profoundly disturbing experience.
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03/06/03
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Irreversible (2003)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:66
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Though well-filmed, Irreversible feels gratuitous in its extreme violence.
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $573,018
Synopsis: Irreversible is a demanding and audacious but thoroughly rewarding cinematic experience that has been thrilling audiences since its world premiere in Cannes and its North American debut screenings... [More]
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Director: Gaspar Noe
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Reviews for Irreversible
Top CriticIt makes pure pornography look pretty appealing in comparison. It's the type of picture that will have critics applauding and audiences gagging.
03/06/03
The opening 50 minutes are brutal, but if you can take the punishment, you’ll probably be wowed by Noé’s skills as a filmmaker.
03/06/03
Strangely enough, this collection of gimmickry, brutality, and hollow stylings is best at its least visceral.
03/06/03
For those who can stomach it, the film is a marvelous -- though brutal -- work of art.
03/06/03
Noé's stunt is an exploitation movie with a gimmick, not to mention a vacuous philosophy.
03/04/03
Top CriticVirtually plotless with insipid dialogue and not even as graphically violent as a Peckinpah outing.
03/03/03
Dizzying, shocking and ****ing beautiful
02/26/03
Noe's considerable accomplishment is to examine the relationship between life and art, time and memory.
02/24/03
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02/24/03
Few films are as uncomfortably involving as this one -- the techniques lack subtlety, and could have come off as amateurish, but they pound and build in the way that bad recollections circle in the mind to create queasiness and stress.
02/23/03
For all the virtuosic technique on view, the schematic nature of the project is too glibly nihilistic.
02/22/03
Gaspar Noé positions Irréversible as a structuralist countdown, but a structuralist wank job is more like it.
02/18/03
A powerful film of lasting emotional resonance.
02/12/03
Irréversible has virtually nothing unique to say about 21st century human relations or society.
02/09/03
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02/04/03
The worst one can say about Irréversible is that it bores more than it shocks. It’s essentially a 30-minute film blown out to three times that length.
02/03/03
No 'star rating' has been applied above because conventional indications of 'good' or 'bad' simply do not apply to this film.
02/03/03
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