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The weakest film in Reggio's trilogy.
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If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care. May 28, 2003 | Rating: 3/4
If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care.
Jan Stuart
At its best, Naqoyqatsi awakens the eyes, but it doesn't really do much to tweak the conscience. It's difficult to feel a sense of outrage while you're in a trance. Feb 14, 2003 | Rating: C+
At its best, Naqoyqatsi awakens the eyes, but it doesn't really do much to tweak the conscience. It's difficult to feel a sense of outrage while you're in a trance.
Robert Denerstein
If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change. Jan 30, 2003 | Rating: B | Full Review…
If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change.
Matt Weitz
Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral. Nov 15, 2002 | Full Review…
Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral.
Michael O'Sullivan
Pretentious, ponderous and redundant." Nov 15, 2002
Pretentious, ponderous and redundant."
Ann Hornaday
Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence. Nov 8, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/4
Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence.
Liam Lacey
Too much of a good thing being bombarded with an hour and a half of trippy images that appear to be lecturing me on how miserable, yet strangely beautiful, modern life is. May 7, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Too much of a good thing being bombarded with an hour and a half of trippy images that appear to be lecturing me on how miserable, yet strangely beautiful, modern life is.
Ken Hanke
The only feeling one comes away from Naqoyqatsi is admiration of its technological virtuosity--certainly not what Reggio intended. Dec 27, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The only feeling one comes away from Naqoyqatsi is admiration of its technological virtuosity--certainly not what Reggio intended.
Michael Dequina
Socially aware, but so nihilistic and fatalistic that it's irrelevant since it is unwilling to push towards the social change that the prior films supported so adamently. Mar 1, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4
Socially aware, but so nihilistic and fatalistic that it's irrelevant since it is unwilling to push towards the social change that the prior films supported so adamently.
Derek Smith
Reggio's ever-evolving style in this film doesn't have the same mesmerizing quality as his previous efforts...but nobody makes more accessible non-narrative conceptual cinema. Dec 31, 2003 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Reggio's ever-evolving style in this film doesn't have the same mesmerizing quality as his previous efforts...but nobody makes more accessible non-narrative conceptual cinema.
Rob Blackwelder
The collected sum of the images equal a work of kitsch art. Dec 31, 2003 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The collected sum of the images equal a work of kitsch art.
Dennis Schwartz
Instead of helping us step out of our world, which has become inundated with imagery, Naqoyqatsi gives us more of the same, and our eyes glaze over. Oct 15, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Instead of helping us step out of our world, which has become inundated with imagery, Naqoyqatsi gives us more of the same, and our eyes glaze over.
Jurgen Fauth
Reggio's psychedelic use of visual effects is quite bold considering how dated they may certainly look for many today (although I see them more as vintage effects), and we find more cohesion here than in Powaqqatsi, even if the result becomes equally loose and repetitious after a while.
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