Southland Tales Reviews


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  1. Official Site: Southland Tales  WARNING: Auto-plays audio; Flash-heavy site
  2. IMDb: Southland Tales - Southland Tales External Reviews  WARNING: Pop-ups
  3. Wikipedia: Southland Tales
  4. Rotten Tomatoes: Southland Tales Reviews
  5. Bossa Nova Info: Southland Tales Production Notes
  6. Variety.com: Southland Tales Review
  7. Video: Southland Tales Trailer (Time: 2:29)


Southland Tales Reviews Good

  • EW.com: Southland Tales Review
    • "Southland Tales has a mood unlike anything I've seen: dread that morphs into kitsch and then back again. It's a film that tried my patience, and one I couldn't shake off."
  • The Washington Post: "Southland Tales Review
    • "The plot is not easy to describe, to put it mildly. There are dozens of subplots, and everyone is double-crossing someone else. To sum it up, someone in the ensemble cast has to save the world from the apocalypse."
  • Cinematical.com: Southland Tales Review
    • "Southland Tales works best once you accept the fact that you are not always going to understand what is happening onscreen, and stop fighting the urge to memorize every detail and tie it all together."

Southland Tales Reviews Bad

  • Variety.com: Southland Tales Review
    • "Rarely has a picture been so self-consciously designed to be a culturally meaningful touchstone, and fallen so woefully short, as "Southland Tales." A pretentious, overreaching, fatally unfocused fantasy about American fascism, radical rebellion, nuclear terrorism and apocalypse set two years hence..."
  • The Hollywood Reporter: Southland Tales Review
    • "The film strives to rank alongside such classics as "Brazil" and "Blade Runner" but falls more into the category of "Mars Attacks!" and "1941," and boxoffice potential will rely on very tolerant young audiences. There was more fun and greater character development in "Starship Troopers."
  • The New York Observer: Southland Tales Review
    • "An example of a sophomore jinx encountered by radically experimental directors after their first effort proved to have more traction with audiences and critics than they had anticipated."
  • JoBlo.com: Southland Tales Review
    • "Wow! Where do I begin describing the unmitigated disaster that is Richard Kelly’s highly anticipated follow-up to his cult hit DONNIE DARKO without turning this into a 10-paragraph rant about how pissed I am that Kelly took his obvious smarts and used it for his own purposes, while thinking very little about a little something called “the audience”."