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A muddled brain-teaser, Stay has a solid cast and innovative visuals but little beneath the surface.
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A head-scratching thriller... Sep 6, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A head-scratching thriller...
Matthew Leyland
Stay is interesting, but it's hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similarity to their favorite auteur's scent. Oct 29, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Stay is interesting, but it's hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similarity to their favorite auteur's scent.
James Berardinelli
In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair. Oct 27, 2005 | Full Review…
In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair.
Rachel Aviv
This is the kind of flop that makes even the popcorn taste lousy. Oct 26, 2005 | Full Review…
This is the kind of flop that makes even the popcorn taste lousy.
Rex Reed
There's a lot of talent at work here from the cast to the screenwriter to the director and the visuals, but it's all so arbitrary and cheap and the payoff is so, so lame. Oct 24, 2005
There's a lot of talent at work here from the cast to the screenwriter to the director and the visuals, but it's all so arbitrary and cheap and the payoff is so, so lame.
Richard Roeper
S lot of talent gets expended in Stay. (I'm not including whoever dressed McGregor.) Too bad the movie they made, while effective in short spurts, is almost a complete waste of time. Oct 21, 2005
S lot of talent gets expended in Stay. (I'm not including whoever dressed McGregor.) Too bad the movie they made, while effective in short spurts, is almost a complete waste of time.
Andrew O'Hehir
It is both straightforward and abstract, using cinematic tricks to put the audience in Sam/Henry's headspace. The result is a bit a sense of intentional vertigo that may cloud the films ultimately humanist point. Mar 30, 2011 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
It is both straightforward and abstract, using cinematic tricks to put the audience in Sam/Henry's headspace. The result is a bit a sense of intentional vertigo that may cloud the films ultimately humanist point.
Joshua Starnes
A sappy melodrama touted in a supernatural angle... Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
A sappy melodrama touted in a supernatural angle...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling all lower their box office merit with this unbaked psychological thriller about a suicidal man (Gosling) taunting his eccentric psychologist (McGregor) after surviving a horrible car accident. Apr 19, 2009 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling all lower their box office merit with this unbaked psychological thriller about a suicidal man (Gosling) taunting his eccentric psychologist (McGregor) after surviving a horrible car accident.
Cole Smithey
The effect is something indescribably cinematic, as the inner mechanics of the mind's eye are vividly translated onto the big screen. Beautiful, haunting and ultimately transcendent... Aug 6, 2007 | Full Review…
The effect is something indescribably cinematic, as the inner mechanics of the mind's eye are vividly translated onto the big screen. Beautiful, haunting and ultimately transcendent...
Anton Bitel
Stay wants to be good, creepy fun, but by the middle of the film, I was so uninterested in the plot I became obsessed with McGregor's pants Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
Stay wants to be good, creepy fun, but by the middle of the film, I was so uninterested in the plot I became obsessed with McGregor's pants
Lewis Beale
Ultimately the film delivers such a weak payoff that it makes nearly everything that came before it seem rather pointless. Oct 11, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4
Ultimately the film delivers such a weak payoff that it makes nearly everything that came before it seem rather pointless.
Peter T. Chattaway
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Ryan plays a young student who is distraught after his parents and girlfriend are killed in a car accident. He tells his psychiastrist that he will kill himself in 3 days. Ewan locates all the people who have been in contact with Ryan in an attempt to find him and save him.
Ryan Gosling dazzles once again in this film, in a deep, mind twisting tale on the edge of sanity, that will gradually lose you if you allow it. I've seen this film several times now and have to admit, this is the first time I have watched it and got the ending!
I really can't waste my time on this one - I'm far too depressed as it is. Put succinctly, possibly the most painfully annoying film of all time (not including 'Vanilla Sky')... Hurry UP and die already! And I've so had enough of Ewan McGregor and his phony American accent.
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