Under the Silver Lake

If anything, Silver Lake represents an attempt at reclaiming geek culture from the vomitous legacy of The Big Bang Theory et al.

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Andrew Garfield goes down a pop-culture rabbit hole in Under the Silver Lake

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Andrew Garfield goes down a pop-culture rabbit hole in Under the Silver Lake

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Andrew Garfield is tremendous in a full-bore David Lynch nerd-out

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Andrew Garfield is tremendous in a full-bore David Lynch nerd-out

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It’s easy to see why the long-delayed “Under the Silver Lake” has been something of a conundrum for A24, a film distributor that typically knows how to handle projects that may not appeal to a mass audience.

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It’s easy to see why the long-delayed “Under the Silver Lake” has been something of a conundrum for A24, a film distributor that typically knows how to handle projects that may not appeal to a mass audience.

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Lars von Trier doesn’t need a press conference to shock the hell out of the Cannes Film Festival

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Lars von Trier doesn’t need a press conference to shock the hell out of the Cannes Film Festival

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The real mystery of Under the Silver Lake is why this ever seemed like an exciting idea.

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The real mystery of Under the Silver Lake is why this ever seemed like an exciting idea.

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Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a pop culture-obsessed slacker living in LA, who spies on his neighbours and reads conspiracy zines instead of looking for jobs. When he meets new neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough), the pair hit it off — before her sudden disappearance sends Sam spiralling on a mission to track her down.

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David Robert Mitchell's trippy L.A. noir is at once seductive and baffling, as Andrew Garfield plays a geek going down a rabbit hole of Mystery.

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But with “Under the Silver Lake” Mitchell saw all the lights on the long highway to success turn green, and in the full flush of all that indulged freedom, put the top down, turned up the radio and roared off into the LA evening, forgetting that he didn’t have anywhere to go.

2198d ago

David Robert Mitchell's trippy L.A. noir is at once seductive and baffling, as Andrew Garfield plays a geek going down a rabbit hole of Mystery.

2198d ago

Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a pop culture-obsessed slacker living in LA, who spies on his neighbours and reads conspiracy zines instead of looking for jobs. When he meets new neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough), the pair hit it off — before her sudden disappearance sends Sam spiralling on a mission to track her down.

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But with “Under the Silver Lake” Mitchell saw all the lights on the long highway to success turn green, and in the full flush of all that indulged freedom, put the top down, turned up the radio and roared off into the LA evening, forgetting that he didn’t have anywhere to go.

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Sex, Obsession, and Class in “Under the Silver Lake” and “Burning”

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Sex, Obsession, and Class in “Under the Silver Lake” and “Burning”

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Even after the film (quite entertainingly) explains itself, it never feels like more than a howl of frustration and cynicism.

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The sweet smarts of Mitchell’s first movie, “The Myth of the American Sleepover” (treated to a bit of auto-allusion in “Silver Lake”) aren’t much in evidence here. Nor are the slippery psychosexual scares of “It Follows,” his breakthrough horror movie from 2015. The ambitions this time are grander, but also vaguer and duller.

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Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough star in David Robert Mitchell's surreal Los Angeles neo-noir about the coded mysteries behind the Dream Factory.

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Even after the film (quite entertainingly) explains itself, it never feels like more than a howl of frustration and cynicism.

2198d ago

Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough star in David Robert Mitchell's surreal Los Angeles neo-noir about the coded mysteries behind the Dream Factory.

2198d ago

The sweet smarts of Mitchell’s first movie, “The Myth of the American Sleepover” (treated to a bit of auto-allusion in “Silver Lake”) aren’t much in evidence here. Nor are the slippery psychosexual scares of “It Follows,” his breakthrough horror movie from 2015. The ambitions this time are grander, but also vaguer and duller.

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Andrew Garfield searches for hidden clues and Hollywood conspiracies in this muddled riff on Hitchcock/Chandler thrillers

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Andrew Garfield searches for hidden clues and Hollywood conspiracies in this muddled riff on Hitchcock/Chandler thrillers

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David Robert Mitchell’s film shows the dangers of a hot director being given free rein, as Andrew Garfield’s stoner wanders around piecing together an occult conspiracy of the super-rich

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David Robert Mitchell’s film shows the dangers of a hot director being given free rein, as Andrew Garfield’s stoner wanders around piecing together an occult conspiracy of the super-rich

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