Slipstream meanders into some lucidity by film's end, but it remains difficult to determine if it's a work born of genius or madness. The decision lies with the viewer.

| Apr 12, 2016

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Alternately interesting and unwatchable.

| Feb 29, 2008

Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.

| Original Score: 0/10 | Feb 28, 2008

A Hopkins personal vanity project

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2007

A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2007

What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 28, 2007

[S]o fascinating a failure that it's worth seeing...

| Oct 26, 2007

If not exactly dull, Hopkins' stream-of-consciousness rant is nonetheless self-indulgent and crammed with bits of business that never add up to anything much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2007

At 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Slipstream is an experiment in visual stream-of-consciousness, but stream-of-consciousness fares better as a literary form than a cinematic one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Anthony Hopkins wrote and directed Slipstream. It's a free-form, surreal meditation on stuff that, evidently, popped into Hopkins' head while he was writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Has one trick up its sleeve, and once that trick is revealed, the film collapses in on itself in a manner that will irritate more viewers than it intrigues.

| Oct 26, 2007

...makes you long for a pretentious, arty student short. Because those are only about eight minutes long.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Slipstream is Anthony Hopkins's third film as a director and his first as a quasi-avant-garde filmmaker working well outside the mainstream.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

If consummate thespian Anthony Hopkins downplays, even dismisses, discussions about the "craft" of acting, then Slipstream, only the second film he's directed, betrays evidence that it's a subject to which he's nevertheless given a lot of thought.

| Oct 25, 2007