Inside felt like a hilariously disturbing, and disturbingly hilarious, deep dive into my own internet-addled brain.

| Apr 5, 2022

Though his Netflix pandemic special focuses on home confinement, it's entertaining enough - and beautiful enough - to work in a theater.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2021

Maybe five years from now it, too, will be hailed as a classic. Or, once the apathy subsides and we all transition out of the liminal space between lockdown and full reopening, maybe we'll recall it, vaguely, as some decent content about and of its time.

| Jun 16, 2021

The auteur can't help but take the pandemic personally in his new comedy special, but really what he's describing is the near-universal feeling of despair in 2020. And that feels good.

| Jun 11, 2021

It's a document of our times that soothes with laughter and comforts with the knowledge that no matter how much it felt otherwise, we really weren't alone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2021

There's something profound and unnerving about this piece that speaks to the careening and difficult thoughts that I think haunted a particular kind of person for well over a year.

| Jun 4, 2021

"Inside" is a tricky work that for all its boundary-crossing remains in the end a comedy in the spirit of neurotic, self-loathing stand-up.

| Jun 4, 2021

This claustrophobic masterpiece will leave you wondering - and reeling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 4, 2021

From shifting aspect ratios to split screens, gorgeous experiments with light and shadows and an array of musical effects, Burnham has built an intricate tapestry of cinematic devices to deepen the psychological intrigue in play.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 4, 2021

The brilliant Bo Burnham: Inside is the perfect comedy special for our real pandemic, the one we all suffered through, the one we're just tentatively coming out of.

| Jun 4, 2021

This feels like Burnham achieving his ultimate form, as a parodist who proves again and again to be exceptionally original and wise. He's the Millennial 'Weird Al' Yankovic -- a title not lightly given.

| Jun 3, 2021

The filmmaking is inherently and marvelously theatrical, the performance almost uncomfortably vulnerable, all carried off with a shrug that seems to say, 'Too soon? Yeah, probably, but f*ck it.'

| Jun 1, 2021

It is an incredible accomplishment, a testament to Burnham's genius at directing, writing, songwriting, performance.

| Jun 1, 2021

When your show's premise is tap dancing over an abyss, you have to be a spectacular tap dancer, and fortunately, Burnham is.

| Jun 1, 2021