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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 18 Apr 2019

Anyone expecting a crowd-pleasing crossover movie from the French director of modern art-house landmarks like Beau Travail and 35 Shots of…

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By Brent_Marchant (762) on 14 Apr 2019

This meandering, convoluted attempt at merging space sci-fi, edgy eroticism and the fallout of dystopian society never finds its legs, leaving…

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By Steviegjd (120) on 13 Apr 2019

This is an anomaly: an arthouse, dystopian future, sci-fi, mind bender. I have appreciated many of Claire Denis' films…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Apr 2019

It’s not always clear that Denis’ film is convincing enough to prove a point, or if any point it would prove is inevitably consumed by…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Apr 2019

It’s admirable, but it has long stretches of dull, and the tickets aren’t free…

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By Toml11 (4) on 11 Apr 2019

Brilliant film from start to finish, highly recommend…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Apr 2019

High Life is a meandering mess of symbolism, half-thoughts, ponderous exchanges, and emotional dead ends, one that confuses ambiguity for an…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 10 Apr 2019

Never has space travel looked so sordid, debased, mean-spirited, or crummy, qualities intensified by the (intentionally) ugliest cinematography…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2019

High Life has the trippy profundity of 2001, the human treachery of Aliens, and it also includes an Orgasmatron…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Apr 2019

Even ardent Pattinson fandom won’t be enough to convert mainstream American audiences to the art-house director’s dark outlook and elliptical…

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By Samantha Incorvaia (38) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 09 Apr 2019

[Denis] definitely never holds back from shocking the audience with multiple sudden deaths, haunting rape scenes and various graphic moments…

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By Gwz (3) on 09 Apr 2019

I had quite high expectations on this one. Big disappointment…

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By Maureen Ryan (7) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Apr 2019

Transfixing? A bore? I cannot answer for you…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 09 Apr 2019

I’m still not entirely sure what it all adds up to, but it is provocative, difficult and bleak and leaves you with a very precise feeling…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Apr 2019

Denis delves into the group psychology of a beleaguered crew, housed in an interplanetary rust bucket…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Apr 2019

With its brutal violence, explicit sex, and up-close views of blood, sweat, urine, and semen, it is proudly an R-rated film, verging on NC-17—though…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 05 Apr 2019

High Life is, at turns, gorgeous, ridiculous, and confounding. Yet, the more you wrestle with it, the more it haunts you…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 Apr 2019

Too often the ideas here, visual and otherwise, feel haphazard — outer and inner space, Pattinson’s head, sexual taboo, apocalypse now…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Apr 2019

For all its body horrors and apocalyptic conclusions, High Life is one of Denis’s most loving and tender creations…

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By Dave White (762) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Apr 2019

It begins in a lush, green garden, but High Life, the quiet, bracing and ultimately moving first English-language film from acclaimed French…

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