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Tideland (2006)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:19
Rotten:51
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Tideland is a disturbing, and mostly unwatchable effort from Terry Gilliam.
Theatrical Release:Oct 13, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Terry Gilliam, the director of such fantasies as TIME BANDITS, BRAZIL, and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, tells a very different kind of story in TIDELAND. Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Reviews for Tideland
Horrendous and terrible and borderline unwatchable -- the most depressing film by a major filmmaker in recent memory.
11/01/06
Ugly, disturbing, and misguided mess.
10/30/06
Perhaps once we leave these squeamish times, Tideland will emerge like one of Welles' later films as a misunderstood classic.
10/27/06
Pointless and an excruciating bore.
10/27/06
Top CriticThe movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito: Nicola Pecorini's cinematography has verve but no visual sense, and the film's self-important pace turns deadening over the long haul.
10/27/06
Becomes an excruciating exercise in gothic excess and progressively more disgusting imagery.
10/26/06
When Jeliza-Rose announces in the first scene, 'Today, we're all going on a great trip!', know that it's to the center of an emotional black hole.
10/26/06
A diary of pain and a chronicle of the armour of mythology an imaginative mind expels to salve it away.
10/23/06
A triumph of costuming and production design over plot, theme and main characters.
10/20/06
It's yet another example of the undeniably imaginative filmmaker (Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys) frittering away a movie with ugly visuals and even more unpleasant behavior.
10/20/06
The film drags in the middle and feels excruciatingly slow and repetitive in the final stretch.
10/20/06
Top CriticTideland's unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard.
10/19/06
Not for the faint-hearted, to be sure, yet amid the swaying chaff there are moments of piercing grace and beauty when we're reminded of the lost, lonely child at the heart of this tale.
10/19/06
It's crazy, dangerous and sometimes gorgeous: a feast of nuttiness that takes you, for a while, over the edge.
10/19/06
Top CriticTerry Gilliam’s first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier.
10/18/06
Tideland is Gilliam unrestrained to be sure, and the result is a picture that has no chance at commercial success whatsoever %u2014 but a great shot at upsetting many a right-wing politico at the very least.
10/17/06
I came very close to walking out of the screening room. And I never do that.
10/17/06
Top CriticPart Lewis Carroll, part Alfred Hitchcock, part Andrew Wyeth, part Terrence Malick and all Terry Gilliam, it is a unique and personal vision that, like it or not, will stick in your mind for a long time after you see it.
10/16/06
Appropriately, Tideland ends with a train wreck.
10/15/06
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