Under the Silver Lake

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Jonathan K @aFIREintheattic Jul 20 This was far weirder than I could've imagined. Usually I mean that as a compliment, this time I'm not so sure. It's really out there. Toward the end you start to get the sense that maybe none of it actually happened, that it's all some fever dream hallucination, an effect of a post-breakup mind. And if the fantastical, wandering-through-LA tale is meant to be taken like it really happened, you can almost believe all these things he encounters could actually be in LA. There's something about this place, all these weird nooks and crannies of people and oddities, random weird parties and strange locations you can stumble upon, where anything is possible and Hollywood mysteries are everywhere. And for that, and the familiarity with LA even though it's geographically pretty inaccurate, I liked it. It's always fun watching a movie make the city you live in into a character. But otherwise, I'm not sure. I think it's kind of a mess of a movie, and super duper... [continued on letterboxd] See more S. O @Col._Angus Jun 9 It's so bad you literally won't care how it ends, if you're still awake See more Daryl D. @DmacVisuals Jun 8 Conspiracy theorists applaud this one See more Daniel R. @RT27147781 Jun 3 There was as much nonsense as there was genius! I enjoyed the genius thoroughly! See more Claudio C @Claudio666 May 11 Under the Silver Lake (2018) Life Is Too Short to Spend Watching This Long Nonsense (12,436 – 10 May 2026 – Claudio Carvalho) "Under the Silver Lake" (2018) is an awful, overrated movie that goes nowhere by David Robert Mitchell, who seems to be tripping. Life is too short to spend watching this long nonsense. I regret the time I have lost that will never come back. My vote is one. Title (Brazil): "O Mistério de Silver Lake" ("The Mystery of Silver Lake") My Blog: https://maniacosporfilme.wordpress.com/ See more Robert W @RT34973803 May 5 Under the Silver Lake mistakes clutter for complexity and aimlessness for depth. Sam isn't a critique of toxic masculinity—he's just toxic, and the film indulges him for 140 minutes. Dozens of cryptic puzzles lead nowhere, because "nihilism" is the excuse for lazy writing. The billionaire death cult reveal is both absurd and pointless, leaving Sam exactly where he started: broke, alone, and unwatchable. Mitchell wants credit for deconstructing noir without ever building a coherent one. This isn't a puzzle box—it's a junk drawer. Skip it and watch Chinatown or The Long Goodbye instead. See more Read all reviews

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