Beyond the Black Rainbow 2010

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Close-ups of a needle penetrating gnarled toes and a mutant slathered in what I choose to believe is bittersweet chocolate make as much sense as the scary drawings of angry vulvas hiding in a drawer. Read more

William Goss, MSN Movies: There's much to admire about Panos Cosmatos' directorial debut, but the end result is admittedly not for all tastes. Read more

Alison Willmore, AV Club: Beyond The Black Rainbow is more surface than substance, but those surfaces are gleamingly polished enough to make for a hypnotic experiment that goes beyond genre pastiche or art-school wankery to seem formally daring. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: "Beyond the Black Rainbow" has a doomy, dreamy, druggy, draggy feel that's impressively sustained - until it becomes oppressive, then pointless, then laughable. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie looks like it was lit by lava lamps, scored on Moog synthesizers, written between bong hits and acted underwater. None of this is meant as praise. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Add two more stars here if zoning out to weirdo-dreamy, '80s public-access TV with a synthesizer soundtrack is your idea of midnight fun. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: This would-be cult classic is the movie equivalent of gazing at a lava lamp for nearly two hours. Read more

Matt Singer, Time Out: A welcome attempt to bring back the days of El Topo and Eraserhead, when night owls embraced directors who wanted to screw with viewers' heads, not just the ones who screwed up their chances for auteristic posterity. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Much of the time, watching Beyond the Black Rainbow is accompanied by head scratching, but perhaps that's the point of this trippy outing. Read more