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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Jul 2010

Solid acting helps the story stay earthbound when Aronofsky's filmmaking gets addicted to its own flashy cynicism, but the picture sometimes…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for Slate (2,081) on 26 Jun 2010

Becomes increasingly unwatchable -- not just bleak but punishing, as if the director wants to fry your circuits along with his characters…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Dec 2009

A work of art whose beauty has the eternal power of redemption…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Jun 2009

It’s technically striking filmmaking, to be sure, but what it’s presenting is nothing that many people will want to look at…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 15 May 2009

Requiem For A Dream is a movie about drug addiction, but that's only where the plot resides so the thoroughly drawn characters can work toward…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Sep 2008

Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to…

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By Bob Graham (157) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Sep 2008

He (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace…

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By Kevin Mccarthy (392) for BDK Reviews (222) on 01 Aug 2008

One of the most powerful I have ever seen. The film's score and editing will haunt you for years to come…

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By Kevin Maynard (208) for Mr. Showbiz (475) on 17 Jan 2008

Never the heart-wrenching emotional experience it seems intended to be…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Film Scouts (224) on 20 Jun 2007

Seldom has a film so powerfully affected me as Requiem for a Dream has -- affected, in this case, as if my eyes and psyche have been bludgeoned…

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By J. Rentilly (21) for TNT RoughCut (165) on 06 Jan 2007

Chilling and technically proficient and, also, fairly hollow…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 30 Dec 2006

If Aronofsky set out to make Trainspotting look like Teletubbies, he succeeded. Recommended only for those with extremely strong stomachs…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

Burnished camerawork and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself head Mansell's part-punchy, part-elegiac score reinforce and counterpoint the increasingly…

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By Ron Wells (162) for Film Threat (5,156) on 06 Dec 2005

With this movie, Aronofsky sends a couple of messages…

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By Steven Snyder (233) for Zertinet Movies (219) on 30 Sep 2005

It's the type of experience that you will never cry at in the theater, but will cry at long after, as the message fully sinks in…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Feb 2005

Aronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 27 Jul 2004

Locks in on its self-destructive subjects so precisely, it's almost unbearable to watch…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Jul 2004

Often, Requiem for a Dream is as technically inventive and daring as the Scottish heroin film Trainspotting, but it has more resonance and…

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By Greg Muskewitz (87) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 21 Feb 2004

An unordinary, highly stylized, gritty hyperkinetic junkie movie -- unlike anything you've seen before…

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By Megan Ratner (1) for Senses of Cinema (66) on 07 Jun 2003

By using familiar ploys and images only slightly askew of what television advertisements regularly show, Aronofsky manages to get across the…

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