A cinematic suicide note.
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10/14/06
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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
The film has nary a gram of human reality or compassion anywhere in it.
10/13/06
Top CriticThe movie is brave, strong, deeply felt, and frequently brilliant, and it does exactly what it sets out to do. But what it sets out to do is distressingly unpleasant.
10/13/06
Terry Gilliam's uncompromising adaptation of Mitch Cullin's disquieting novel of adolescent fantasy and madness further cements Gilliam's reputation as a unique, visionary artist, while reducing his audience to only the most adventurous.
10/13/06
An endless, pointless drone with characters like bacteria and dialogue like an untuned radio.
10/13/06
Top CriticThere's no cinematic Wonderland awaiting the unfortunate moviegoer who follows Terry Gilliam down the rabbit hole into the drearily awful Tideland.
10/13/06
Ugly and misjudged.
10/13/06
Top CriticA murky swamp of a movie.
10/13/06
This year's best film.
10/13/06
It's a tough sell for the masses, but cineastes need to watch, as much to see what Gilliam got right as to figure out what he got wrong.
10/13/06
if there was ever a film to end a career, Tideland is it.
10/12/06
Despite a few psychologically insightful touches about how children learn to survive misery, Tideland is borderline unwatchable, although, as is true of all Gilliam movies, it certainly is different.
10/12/06
Gilliam drains any remaining signs of life and humanity from his adult characters, underscoring their grotesqueness with expressionistic camera work and shock-tactic effects.
10/12/06
Top CriticThis time [Gilliam] has stumbled into a different no-man’s land, the one between the merely bad and the completely indefensible.
10/12/06
Top CriticWhat we get, sadly, is easily the worst production Gilliam has ever been involved in, either behind the camera or in front of it. Tideland is, by turns, a complete bore and a creepy experience. And I don't mean 'creepy' in a positive sense.
10/11/06
Top CriticThe movie dies early on, but it keeps hanging around, looking a little more rotten with each new scene.
10/11/06
Top CriticFittingly ending with a train wreck, Tideland careens about wildly to only slightly rewarding effect.
10/11/06
It's no masterpiece, but it is a haunting, serious picture.
10/10/06
Gilliam has suffered more than his share of butchered projects, but with this exercise in kamikaze auteurism, he appears to have made exactly the mess he wanted.
10/10/06
Top CriticA movie that fits perfectly in the Terry Gilliam oeuvre, except for the fact that it is a dismal, rank bore that so misses the thematic mark that it becomes a complete nightmare.
10/09/06
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