Stay Reviews

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Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
April 4, 2011
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
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Matthew Leyland
BBC.com
September 6, 2006
A head-scratching thriller...
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
October 29, 2005
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
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Rachel Aviv
Village Voice
October 27, 2005
In Marc Forster's humorless thriller, going insane is an exciting, luxurious affair.
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Rex Reed
Observer
October 26, 2005
This is the kind of flop that makes even the popcorn taste lousy.
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Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
October 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.
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Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
October 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.
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Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 21, 2005
It's all very deep, but in a tricked-up, art-directed sort of way.
Original Score: 2.5/4
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Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
October 21, 2005
Stay is crowded with layers and symbols, probably too many for one movie, and it ultimately wears out its welcome. But its images are compelling, even as its story fades away.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
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Neva Chonin
San Francisco Chronicle
October 21, 2005
A pretty package that's empty on the inside.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
October 21, 2005
Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative.
Original Score: 3/4
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Susan Walker
Toronto Star
October 21, 2005
Sometimes artful doesn't make up for annoying.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
October 21, 2005
Stay is a heartless puzzle that builds no empathy for its characters, no pathos at all, as it is giving us many cryptic clues that don't really lead to that finale. It's an intellectual exercise, not an emotional one.
Original Score: 2/5
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Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
October 21, 2005
Too bad that when it comes time to finally produce a rabbit from his top hat, all Forster can manage is a mouse.
Original Score: 2/4
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Lou Lumenick
New York Post
October 21, 2005
There's no payoff as things drag along to a ludicrous ending that reeks of contempt for its audience.
Original Score: 1/4
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Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
October 21, 2005
The final twist does more to unravel what's come before than to tie it all together, making what's come before feel like a cosmopolitan goose chase.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
October 21, 2005
Whether you guess the ending early or have it smack you upside the head, the result is the same: You'll be out the price of a ticket.
Original Score: 1.5/4
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Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
October 21, 2005
It's hard to imagine a film more perversely obtuse than this dark, grim exercise in cinematic sleight of hand.
Original Score: 1/4
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Michael Booth
Denver Post
October 21, 2005
The brain power you expend making sense of it is better spent elsewhere.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
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Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
October 21, 2005
It all leads to nowhere involving or revelatory or particularly entertaining unless you are interested in Forster's hip, eccentric tastes.
Original Score: 1/4
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