Jake Gyllenhaal, with an impish grin that exudes boyish charm, gives a breakout performance as Donnie Darko.

| Jul 21, 2023

One of the best homages to Back to the Future. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 29, 2023

Rewatching it now it's shocking how much it anticipated about life today. (20th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2021

Kelly adds to this central theme another of the topics that is constantly manifested throughout his work: the possibilities of the divine and the guilt of knowing those designs while we are alive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2021

Every ounce of creativity is met with an equal serving of disappointing nebulousness.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 29, 2020

It's a dense, complicated and amazing amalgam of genres and influences that really defies any constraints.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 7, 2020

I certainly didn't have an emotional bond with the film. Still, I admire the risk taking and what it has to say about mental illness.

| Original Score: B | Mar 7, 2019

It's ultimately the piece's surprisingly sincere, compassionate edge which transmits the most.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2018

[Richard] Kelly winds so many ideas, so many questions, and so much marvelously strange experience through this ambitious film that you can forgive the few loose ends and overdone caricatures amidst the richness.

| Dec 16, 2017

Donnie Darko is a film that requires many viewings or deep research. However, the film is much more than time travel as we've come to know.

| Jun 29, 2017

Donnie Darko, the 1st cult classic of the 21st century, a masterclass in assiduous filmmaking, remains one of the most relevant, urgent and timely films of the last 50 years.

| Jun 29, 2017

The theatrical version is some kind of compacted masterpiece, hormonal, vital, dazed, blissfully unhinged... I'm too attached to Donnie Darko to worry over its wanton weirdness, its mix of concreteness and intangibility.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 29, 2017

It remains an aesthetically filmed blend of off-beat comedy, mind-boggling sci-fi, and subjective storytelling that serves as a singular and timeless piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 6, 2017

The movie feels perfectly timed to coincide with our nation's latest flirtation with the apocalypse.

| Mar 31, 2017

Donnie Darko rightly made a star of Gyllenhaal.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 10, 2017

The script makes variable sense, but so does life.

| Dec 29, 2016

Wildly imaginative, it remains one of those films that gets under your skin and stays there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2016

A movie with something of Back to the Future, Twin Peaks, American Beauty and of course Harvey.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 22, 2016

Gyllenhaal's breakthrough performance is simultaneously heartfelt, melancholy and mischievous.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 19, 2016

As pop as it is arthouse, as funny as it is tragic, Donnie Darko remains a remarkable one-off that's easy to adore.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 19, 2016