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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 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

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

Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Oct 25, 2007

Slipstream is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 25, 2007

Say this much for Anthony Hopkins' project: If he's going to indulge himself as a writer-director-star, it's probably better that he goes completely off the wall.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 25, 2007

I'm glad that Hopkins has apparently been using the bland, middlebrow stage of his acting career to experiment with massive doses of psychotropic chemicals and open the doors of perception and all that. Next time, maybe he'll just write a manifesto.

| Oct 25, 2007

Straight-up bonkers.

| Oct 25, 2007

Hopkins claims it's a comedy, and perhaps John Turturro's live-action cartoon of a mogul producer suggests so, but what does it all mean? That art can be just as shallow as Hollywood?

| Oct 23, 2007

Blaring its pretense to Lynch-ness, Slipstream crumbles under the weight of Hopkins's self-indulgence, yet there is some measure of sincerity to this senseless upchuck.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2007

The veneer of stylistic hyperactivity can't conceal the starkly banal dialogue and a roster of performances that seem, under the circumstances, hardly directed at all.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2007

[It] can either be viewed as one huge home movie or a plaything from an actor who has been observing other filmmakers for decades.

Full Review | Jan 21, 2007