Primer Reviews
LarsenOnFilm
Where's Doc Brown when you need him?
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| Original Score: 3/4
Flix Capacitor
While most time travel movies are usually mind-bending by their very nature, it's no exaggeration to say that Primer is as complicated as they come.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema Writer
ridiculous, confusing, vaguely noir-ish nonsense
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Cinemania
Discombobulating and mind-bending sci fi thriller. I think.
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| Original Score: 88/100
Cinema Crazed
An exceptional science fiction film...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticMind-bending thrillers like Primer are terrific viewing with your teenagers. Maybe if you're nice, they'll explain the ending to you.
Film Scouts
Oh, man, they don't make 'em like this often. A film unabashedly for the nerds in the audience (God love us), this is the type of film you could inflict upon your enemies, watching them squirm as they stare at the screen.
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| Original Score: A
Combustible Celluloid
Shane Carruth's ultra-low budget, 78-minute sci-fi film could almost be a 'B' movie from the past if not for its icy intelligence.
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| Original Score: 3/4
This film imagines its viewers to be smart, possessed of a decent attention span and game for a challenge. It doesn't happen all that often.
Urban Cinefile
Shane Carruth's Primer is a science fiction movie like no other, pushing its experimental tendencies as far as they can go without betraying the genre
ViewLondon
One of the most original and intriguing film debuts of the last few years.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
Not recommended for entry-level time-travel theorists, but experienced 'chrononauts' will meet themselves scratching their heads in amused puzzlement as they emerge from an earlier screening.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Shadows on the Wall
If he could've made some sense of it in the end, Carruth'd have a masterpiece on his hands.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cinenganos
Una joya de ritmo y de temática.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Panorama
Primer est un film difficile à détester, mais encore plus difficile à pleinement apprécier.
| Original Score: B
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
One of the best science fiction films I have seen, and certainly as one of the genre's best in recent years.
Zertinet Movies
Only after watching this film did I realize the even more amazing story.
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| Original Score: 4/4
