Gilliam’s film isn’t easy. He doesn’t want it to be. At every turn, he challenges us.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 8, 2024

Gilliam's plan to make a small budget film of limited scope that would leave him free to display his unfettered creative genius sounds good on paper. However, his melodramatic, Alice In Wonderland variety fairy tale is sadly near-incomprehensible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2018

It works best when Gilliam allows Jeliza-Rose to disappear inside her own mind, revelling in unrestricted solitude.

| Oct 30, 2018

It is true that Gilliam makes his movies through fire and brimstone just by examining his extraordinary filmography, and there is no denying that Tideland is a film that was borne out of that.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 9, 2018

...in the midst of all the perverse chaos, a story emerges that is easily the most tender and even sentimental in all of Gilliam's work.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 9, 2010

It seems, from the flat-out filmic disaster of "Tideland," that director Terry Gilliam is intent on ensuring a decisive end to his checkered filmmaking career.

| Original Score: F | Apr 24, 2009

Now, I like pushing boundaries as much as the next guy. When it's done well, as in say Todd Solondz' wonderfully dark Happiness, it can be searingly challenging. But in the case of Tideland it's just uncomfortable to watch.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Terry Gilliam has again stretched his craft to fashion a work of tragedy-tinged fantasy that uses the full range of dark movie making tools to great effect.

| Apr 21, 2007

Gilliam appears to be trying to throw us all off-guard, to make the theatergoing experience unpleasant. But in its own unlovable way, the movie is an unforgettable experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 8, 2007

Gilliam's weirdest -- and most disappointing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 3, 2007

film stands as a metaphor testifying for the basic resiliency of the human spirit

| Original Score: B | Apr 1, 2007

Terry Gilliam doesn't need another failure, but here it is.

| Mar 1, 2007

This two-disc set is sure to keep Gilliam's few Tideland fans buzzing for some time.

| Feb 27, 2007

This macabre fairy tale, a bizarre blend of surrealism and eccentricities, might be best described as a kinky cross of Psycho and Alice in Wonderland.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2007

Never quite coheres . . . But Gilliam has still made an admirable--and, at times, daring--oddity . . . disturbingly different from most celluloid childhoods.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2007

However misguided and off-the-mark Tideland may be, you can't say that it lacks artistic merit.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 26, 2007

This is supposed to be a comedy, but it's not easy to laugh at the dire situation that surrounds this innocent girl.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 15, 2006

As unwatchable as a train wreck.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 12, 2006

"Tideland" is frustrating for the way it refuses to coalesce. You watch the film feeling abused and exploited, never knowing whether there's a bottom to this rabbit hole.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 16, 2006

Tideland is flawed but it's still a must-see for anyone who considers themselves a fan of Gilliam.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2006