Starfish offers a new look at how humans deal with grief while also making its own mark within the horror genre.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 22, 2023

Sometimes a little too music-video-like, and playfully random...I couldn't relate. Still, many millennial viewers seem to think Starfish is amaaaaaazing.

| Oct 21, 2020

An ambitious piece of science fiction that manages to keep afloat despite its attempt to juggle two vastly different storylines.

| Sep 25, 2020

White's film is interesting and unique with enough tension to keep things moving, but will leave you more confused than enthralled.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 18, 2019

As strong as White's direction is here, the film doesn't work without the strength of Gardner's performance.

| Dec 18, 2019

The mental maelstrom of Starfish is eerie, imaginative, and highly impactful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2019

A.T White's Starfish is a film that has brilliant production values for a low-budget sci-fi film. But it's far too self-contained in its representation to really make its own place among a sea of seen-before advents.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Starfish is a unique vision from director A.T. White in his first feature film. Surreal and atmospheric, it should appeal to both fans of arthouse cinema and genre film.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 17, 2019

Starfish is a triumph of art design over budget.

| Jul 25, 2019

It's difficult to watch a film that doesn't stick the landing despite everyone giving it their all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2019

[Starfish is] emblematic of depression: messy, confusing, slow and unconnected.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2019

A fantasy story without much plot, of how one person survives loss and the apocalypse.

| Original Score: B | Jul 4, 2019

There's a lot to like about Starfish, but the choppy editing, the overly arthouse way it presents some of the themes, and underdeveloped aspects of the story in favor of the aural experience is ostracizing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 3, 2019

If White's wild formal experimentation and narrative cul-de-sacs result in a strange identity crisis for the film - a sense that he wasn't entirely sure which movie he wanted to make - Gardner's stellar work unifies it.

| Jun 20, 2019

Peppered with mind-bending images, White's visually impressive feature debut takes cues from genre flicks like The Signal, Pontypool, The Endless and Cloverfield, as well as producing jolting shocks and a manga-style animated interlude.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2019

A. T. White's fascinating debut feature isn't exactly hard science fiction, but there's certainly a logic to it. "Starfish" is one strange retro ride.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 10, 2019

Bold, to say the least, and frustratingly pretentious to say the most.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 8, 2019

A beautiful, haunting and hypnotic study of grief told through whimsy and wonder, Starfish falls somewhere between Donnie Darko, I Am Legend, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

The first act of Starfish, with its oblique dialogue and shallow focus, is so lovely that it scarcely requires the pleasant if shallow film beyond it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

It's The Mist as a one-woman college radio show, with a dollop of Another Earth and a dash of Tarkovsky. So, yeah: WEIRD.

| Original Score: B | Jun 3, 2019