This is not a hopeful film, nor is it nihilistic. Whether you like it or not, the film acknowledges the need to make personal responses in the face of the inadequacy of social solutions.

| Aug 19, 2022

A masterpiece of alienation returns in all its ragged, unseemly glory.

| May 20, 2022

Out of the Blue remains a stunner.

| May 12, 2022

The film begins and ends with her yelling about punk music into a ham radio to whatever person out there might be listening. Cebe is angry and frustrated in a way not that different from how a lot of people are today.

| Apr 7, 2022

As anthropology, Out of the Blue is engrossing; as a social document, it is essential; but as undiluted raw power, it is absolute. No filter.

| Mar 29, 2022

An intense, singular vision.

| Mar 15, 2022

With its tense long takes and chilly, impoverished backdrop, this is a disquieting and often very upsetting film, but one marked by its clear poetic honesty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2022

With Out of the Blue, Hopper makes you uncomfortable, squirm, and feel sick while watching, a sensation that only heightens as the film wears on.

| Original Score: A | Feb 8, 2022

Under Hopper’s vision, the movie did capture a cultural shift from the hippie ethos of Easy Rider to punk rock’s feverish nihilism, represented by Linda Manz’s character, Cebe.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2022

Dennis Hoppers vital 1980 masterpiece was almost lost, as well as an accidental production from the start in Vancouver: goofily appropriate considering its punk rock subject and milieu.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 5, 2022

Out of the Blue gives us bravura filmmaking and an energizing soundtrack, but its ultimately a very dark, disturbing story that cranks up the regular struggles and insecurities we expect in teen films until they explode.

| Feb 3, 2022

OUT OF THE BLUE is as haunting as the Neil Young song that it is named for. Indeed, there is more to this picture than what meets the eye.

| Jan 27, 2022

Manz is the true author of her performance. The results are thunderous. Due to Manz's work here, the film is filled with poignant moments of cinematic power that one usually only finds in European cinema.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 30, 2021

...a ground-breaking film in its willingness to observe the worst of human depravity...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2021

The result is probably the best of Hopper's directorial efforts -- it is certainly the most dramatically consistent of the bunch.

| Nov 22, 2021

It's a dire poem of rage and despair that feels truly alive.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 20, 2021

Dennis Hopper made the film while still in the depths of his various addictions, yet the dark shambolic energy that both radiates from the actor and suffuses every minute of Out of the Blue never once overwhelms Linda Manz.

| Nov 19, 2021

It's challenging from the get-go, but oh so worth the grilling upon its explosive conclusion.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2021

A flawed yet intriguing drama which deals with a number of serious social issues in an unusual way.

| Nov 15, 2021

Hopper, as director and uncredited writer, extends no hope whatsoever, and there's something vital and cleansing about the movie's thorough nihilism.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 12, 2021