This isn’t the good kind of mess that’s just bursting with too many ideas to contain itself: it’s just half-assed in multiple directions.

| Jan 12, 2023

Planetarium manages to ascend to a rare sense of cinematic wonder spliced intoxicatingly with an unshakeable stab of longing, and an inescapable sense of doom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2019

It's a shame because the idea behind Planetarium is interesting, and the visual style in the opening credits is promising, but the storytelling lacks presence, which makes it not much more than a collection of pretty but vacuous sequences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

All style and of little substance.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 15, 2018

This liquified Chanel ad doesn't take us to heaven along the way-it just plunges us into an infernal abyss of boredom.

| Sep 25, 2017

A singular, at times haunting experience.

| Aug 17, 2017

Watching Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium is akin to seeing a filmmaker lost in the thickets of her own vision.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Aug 14, 2017

For all of its virtues and distinctions, Planetarium isn't a comprehensive experience; it's a teeming and gleeful grab bag of deft cinematic flourishes.

| Aug 11, 2017

Despite some visual flourishes and strong performances, the bilingual screenplay detours in different directions without establishing a firm foundation in character or tone.

| Aug 11, 2017

A film that looks promising on paper but has no idea how to put its ingredients together.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 11, 2017

Visually sumptuous but a deadly bore.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 11, 2017

It's unusual to see such excellence in costumes, sets and cinematography lavished on this degree of narrative muddle.

| Aug 10, 2017

Rides a thin line between intoxicating and infuriating, and perhaps this is where Zlotowski enjoys the view most, creating a picture that uses mystery to manage the unreal.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 10, 2017

Numerous potentially interesting ideas orbit one another in Planetarium, but none boasts sufficient gravity to merit a landing, it seems.

| Original Score: C | Aug 10, 2017

Given all its clumsily executed genre detours and tonal fluctuations, Rebecca Zlutowski's Planetarium suggests an amateur juggling act.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 7, 2017

There are plenty of movies about movies that put a spotlight on creating movie magic. This may be the first one about actual magic in movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2017

a fascinating curio of a film, but not much more.

| Mar 8, 2017

Though handsomely produced and rich in subject matter, the scattered focus-with none of the plot strands even half-way developed-comes across as one long expositional setup.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 3, 2017

Rebecca Zlotowski's third film is a muddled, inscrutable jumble of ideas and images.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2016

There's little in the way of forward momentum, and certainly no answers (arguably there are not even any questions), but as an experience it's certainly something.

| Sep 15, 2016