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Visually audacious, disorienting, and just plain weird, Videodrome's musings on technology, entertainment, and politics still feel fresh today.
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Simultaneously stupefying and boring, Videodrome is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public. Aug 4, 2015 | Full Review…
Simultaneously stupefying and boring, Videodrome is too extreme a blunder to survive exposure to a justifiably disillusioned horror-movie public.
Gary Arnold
Film is dotted with video jargon and ideology which proves more fascinating than distancing. And Cronenberg amplifies the freaky situation with a series of stunning visual effects. Jun 6, 2007 | Full Review…
Film is dotted with video jargon and ideology which proves more fascinating than distancing. And Cronenberg amplifies the freaky situation with a series of stunning visual effects.
Variety Staff
Never coherent and frequently pretentious, the film remains an audacious attempt to place obsessive personal images before a popular audience -- a kind of Kenneth Anger version of Star Wars. Jun 6, 2007 | Full Review…
Never coherent and frequently pretentious, the film remains an audacious attempt to place obsessive personal images before a popular audience -- a kind of Kenneth Anger version of Star Wars.
Dave Kehr
There are distinct signs of strain in the plot convolutions, not least in the spectator's loss of faith over indiscriminate and cheating use of hallucination; what certainly survives is Cronenberg's wholesale disgust with the world in general. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
There are distinct signs of strain in the plot convolutions, not least in the spectator's loss of faith over indiscriminate and cheating use of hallucination; what certainly survives is Cronenberg's wholesale disgust with the world in general.
Chris Peachment
Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while. Aug 30, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/5
Though Videodrome finally grows grotesque and a little confused, it begins very well and sustains its cleverness for a long while.
Janet Maslin
On a line starting with quality and ending with incompetence. Apr 17, 2001 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
On a line starting with quality and ending with incompetence.
Michael Thomson
"Videodrome" is a radical look at the deep-web, YouTube, screen addiction and the increasingly violent state of movies at a time when such subjects weren't up for cultural debate. Jun 11, 2019 | Full Review…
"Videodrome" is a radical look at the deep-web, YouTube, screen addiction and the increasingly violent state of movies at a time when such subjects weren't up for cultural debate.
Asher Luberto
Videodrome shows us a world of our making should we continue a dangerous relationship with media, its various mediums, the images it puts into our brains. May 6, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Videodrome shows us a world of our making should we continue a dangerous relationship with media, its various mediums, the images it puts into our brains.
C.H. Newell
It's hard to overstate how premonitory David Cronenberg's masterpiece turned out to be. Oct 1, 2018 | Full Review…
It's hard to overstate how premonitory David Cronenberg's masterpiece turned out to be.
Sean Fennessey
...envisions a coming world of authoritarian entertainment. Jan 30, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...envisions a coming world of authoritarian entertainment.
Josh Larsen
Here, Cronenberg is a provocateur only to a point - boldly striding past boundaries of comfort but getting the heebie-jeebies upon approaching true profundity. But he wasn't too far from figuring out which incisions could cut the deepest. Feb 28, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Here, Cronenberg is a provocateur only to a point - boldly striding past boundaries of comfort but getting the heebie-jeebies upon approaching true profundity. But he wasn't too far from figuring out which incisions could cut the deepest.
Nick Rogers
...an intriguing, deeply interesting film that over the course of almost three decades has acquired a prescient quality, but it's also schlock; a kind of cyberpunk rewrite of Network that indulges Cronenberg's taste for venereal horror. Jan 16, 2011 | Rating: 87/100 | Full Review…
...an intriguing, deeply interesting film that over the course of almost three decades has acquired a prescient quality, but it's also schlock; a kind of cyberpunk rewrite of Network that indulges Cronenberg's taste for venereal horror.
Philip Martin
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