Under the Silver Lake

2018

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 159 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 58531 58.5K

a24 secret society seduction dark comedy surrealism dream sequence

Plot summary

Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.

Director

David Robert Mitchell Photo
David Robert Mitchell

Top cast

Sydney Sweeney Photo
Sydney Sweeney as Shooting Star #2
Tucker Meek Photo
Tucker Meek as Sevence Kid #4
Chris Gann Photo
Chris Gann as Jefferson Sevence
Nea Dune Photo
Nea Dune as Hipster
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1.17 GB
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23.976 fps
2 hr 19 min
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1.16 GB
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by banelekunene-77917 7 / 10

A Bold Garfield Performance

This movie is in a few words: strange, intriguing, dull, intimate, and dare I say addictive. The plot is seems pretty simple enough yet as you watch you can get lost at the movies direction- it's at times realistic and other times feels like the next scene will have something outer worldly happen. Regardless the protagonist (Andrew Garfield) whose almost a viewer himself just along for the ride except in real time is one of the movies real gems. It is definitely not for everyone rather it's not for most I believe , as some may really find it boring and/or stupid however if you're looking for something different and that will get your conspiracy senses tingling definitely one to watch.
Reviewed by mydummybox 5 / 10

Much ado about nothing

This movie has too much and not enough.Too much length, too many plot threads, too many characters, too many wanna-be-argute references, too many unresolved nodes. Sadly, not enough meaning.As other reviewers noted, it tries hard to be Mulholland Drive and Donnie Darko, but it falls short of expectations, especially in the uncompelling ending.My son (who liked it) tried to convince me to see some deeper metaphorical level, i.e. One which would be delivering some harsh criticism of Hollywood's alleged many sins. Sorry, I don't buy it: if such was the intent, then arguably the implementation defeated the purpose, ending up guilty of these very same sins.It's not all bad: the acting is OK, as well as the photography and the cinematography. Spotting the many references is fun at first, to quickly lose interest.To me, the real problem is the erratic, self-indulgent direction, seemingly unable to convey a meaningful consistency to the movie, a compelling raison d'être that would and should have made this movie memorable rather than a disappointing sequence of fragments. Lots of dots, unconvincingly connected. All in all, a lost opportunity.Sorry, even though I wanted to like this movie (or possibly _because_ of that) I just cannot recommend it.
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