Zabriskie Point (1970)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:11
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Legendary Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first stateside film is a surreal examination of dissension and rebellion in American society. In particular, ZABRISKIE POINT explores the... [More]
Starring: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor, Paul Fix
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Reviews for Zabriskie Point
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 77/100 |
...can't be regarded as any sort of success. It's a self-indulgent movie, filled with half-baked ideas and radical sloganeering. Full Review |
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 5/5 |
You will not see a better distillation of the entire 1960s and everything it stood for - good, bad, indifferent, insightful - than this uncompromising artistic overview. Full Review |
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Almost 40 years later, Zabriskie Point exists to teach us more exact and sensitive perceptions about a cultural moment that its original audience was too close to appropriately observe. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
If you just sit back and let the film ride out as an experience, you're bound to enjoy the journey Full Review |
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3/5 |
If the film is a failure, then at least it is a striking and provocative failure that attempted to challenge audiences. Full Review |
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C+ |
Antonioni got the worst reviews of his career for this, his first all-American work, yet a second look suggests that, despite muddled script and apocalyptic finale, the film has some artistic merits in the breathtaking visuals of Death Valley. Full Review |
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Antonioni has sought to bring into the focus of his own insights, the student vs establishment conflict. He is on foreign terrain. Full Review |
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2/4 |
With this picture the director falls into two traps: employing endless 'anti-Establishment' cliches and saddling himself with the underwhelming talents of Mark Frechette. Full Review |
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Having seen this and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (the latter repeatedly) in the same week, it's hard not to see them as two sides of the same horny, hazy, and hirsute coin. Full Review |
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Antonioni's sorrowing, stranger's-eye view of modern America is sadly flawed by the way his 'story' s bogged down in the mood of student revolt dogging the nation in the late '60s. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Because of the fundamental emptiness of his American vision, all sorts of flaws that one might overlook in better Antonioni films become apparent. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Antonioni has no feeling for young people...He has tried to make a serious movie and hasn't even achieved a beach-party level of insight. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
Antonioni's worse film ever
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You'll be hard pressed to make much sense out of any of the goings-on. Full Review |
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Set in the Los Angeles of the late 1960s, this is Antonioni's only foray into American territory. Full Review |
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[Antonioni's] beautiful handling of 'Scope compositions and moods has many lingering aftereffects, and the grand and beautiful apocalyptic finale is downright spectacular. Full Review |
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