Taut, edgy, titillating, thrilling. Surveillance is a masterful examination into the dark side of the human condition.

| Nov 15, 2019

Surveillance will create almost no ripples whatsoever as it slithers in and out of theaters to find a second life on late-night cable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 9, 2019

It's a great whodunit.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This strange thriller mixes a penchant for grittiness with the surreal and very very dark stylings of David Lynch, who happens to be the father of the director...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2011

The characters do not stand out, the drama is not compelling, and the screenplay is light on even remotely interesting dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2009

It is staggering to think that a film could be so horrifically nihilistic and so painfully boring at the same time, but Lynch has done it.

| Sep 30, 2009

[S]low-boil sinister, delivering the kind of simmering menace that few films can bother to take the time for these days...

| Aug 18, 2009

The pacing is so slow, you just want to yell out at the screen, "get on with it."

| Original Score: C- | Aug 18, 2009

Jennifer is no David Lynch and her film, while inventive and quirky and at time quite devious, misses the organic alchemy of his films.

| Aug 17, 2009

Some will be unable to appreciate the movie's savagery on any level. Others will find it affecting and uncompromising, the kind of movie that plunges you into a nightmare and ratchets up the intensity until you're grateful for a moment's respite.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2009

A festival of carnage that's sometimes funny and sometimes waaay over the line.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2009

Pullman's striking performance here is undermined by Lynch's overreliance on those same grisly shock tactics, as well as a script that fails to capitalize on a promising premise and then swiftly collapses upon the revelation of a not-so-shocking twist.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2009

The film's a failure.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 24, 2009

In this long-time-coming sophomore film, Lynch exercises powers of her own. She gets repellant, seductive, sympathetic performances from her actors. Ormond and Pullman are frightfully good at teasing intimacy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2009

Surveillance is a respectable murder mystery until its contrived 'big reveal' causes it to deflate faster than an inner tube that was just sat on by a morbidly obese person.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2009

There are a couple of admittedly arresting images on display here and there--not enough to make this film worth watching but enough to make you hope that it doesn't take Lynch another 16 years to make another one.

| Jul 9, 2009

Surveillance suggests 'Jennifer Lynchian' should be used for films that aspire to David's moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 3, 2009

A wholly engaging partial misfire, if that makes sense -- a spare yet stylish marginal recommendation that connects due to its provocative premise and ruminations on violence, and the considerations that spawns.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 3, 2009

A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple Rashomon.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2009