Review of Upstream Color (2013) by Sammie C — 22 Jun 2013

Frustrating without explanation or payoff. If you actually wait it out to finally get some clarity at the end you'll be disappointed.

This review of Upstream Color (2013) was written by Sammie C on 22 Jun 2013.

Upstream Color has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

Upstream Color (2013) Movie Reviews (662)
Upstream Color (2013) Critic Reviews (119)
Upstream Color (2013) User Reviews (543)

More Reviews of Upstream Color

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Renovatia (17) on 11 Oct 2016

Warning, this review will be very critical so read at your own discretion…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Alonso A (135) on 17 Jan 2017

It is about two people whose lives and behaviours are affected by a complex parasite-without knowing it-that has a three-stage life cycle in…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Andrew S (3,174) on 02 Aug 2016

Officially the weirdest movie I have ever seen. Don't go in thinking you will get it on your first viewing, because you won't…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Doomcritic (2) on 06 Apr 2018

I could try to describe my thoughts about this film, but the Wikipedia page does a far better job at explaining what is actually going on…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Jluis_001 (2,242) on 14 Nov 2017

Undoubtedly a great visual experience and I dare to say it's also a sensory one…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Arth J (756) on 25 Feb 2018

It is better than anything you have ever tasted…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Jessica C (726) on 29 Sep 2017

I am an artist and so is my husband. After this film, wecame home and painted for two days... a brilliant, very inspiring film…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Zoey S (11) on 23 Mar 2018

My favorite film of all time, bar none. I honestly wish I had more to say about it. It's an absolutely riveting film that defies synopsis…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Dave W (540) on 24 May 2016

This is a hard one to rate, as I felt I didn't understand it but at the same time it did seem like there was something to understand and even…

Read Review

Review of Upstream Color (2013)

By Joseph Walsh (276) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 Aug 2018

Carruth, once a software programmer, shows a near-autistic capacity for distilling emotion into a finely-structured, rich and rewarding cinematic…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of The Perfect Man (2005)

By Jeffrey Lyles (696) for Gazette (MD) (105) on 16 Jun 2005

The faux lover angle isn't exactly new but when a daughter is more or less trying to woo her mother, it's not original, just weirdly creepy…

Read Review

Review of Night of the Creeps (1986)

By Quinto W (289) on 01 Nov 2009

I love it when a film can combine horror, gore, comedy and camp values successfully, such as Dead Alive, for example…

Read Review

Review of Love Liza (2002)

By Chris H (3,076) on 03 Sep 2011

Not even Philip Seymour Hoffman can save this very depressing, boring movie. I only give it a 20% because Hoffman gets a pass…

Read Review

Review of Dark Blue World (2001)

By Sarah F (1,278) on 10 Dec 2006

Not a very good movie. I wouldnt ever watch this movie again…

Read Review

Review of Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

By Goffy (4) on 20 Oct 2008

I think I am going to be sick. How awful…

Read Review

Review of Brainscan (1994)

By Ian M (1,478) on 20 Jan 2008

Ugh, what a crap film. I only laughed during this film with the outdated surfy terms duuuude, gnarly birdbrain…

Read Review

Review of Stealing Beauty (1996)

By Marco A (155) on 08 Sep 2009

Liv Tyler goes to Italy with the intention of losing her virginity, finding herself and discovering who her Dad was in this arthouse gumpf…

Read Review

Review of If Only (2004)

By Diana W (351) on 04 Apr 2013

Tearjerker, to which i'm not a fan of…

Read Review

Review of Hey! Sinamika (2022)

By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 27 Apr 2022

There’s a lighter, funnier, sexier movie in this material. But it was probably the one already made in Argentina, without the cool dance numbers…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Hereditary

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

No Time to Die

2021

74%254 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Upstream Color

2013

69%662 Reviews

Bathing Beauty

1944

65%12 Reviews

Freeze Frame

2004

63%70 Reviews

On the Road

2014

50%397 Reviews

Half of a Yellow Sun

2013

52%59 Reviews

Saving Marriage

2006

67%11 Reviews

The Devil's Double

2011

65%651 Reviews

Bridesmaids

2011

71%1,082 Reviews

Hangar 10

2014

31%16 Reviews

The Blue Angel

1930

81%147 Reviews