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

| Feb 27, 2007

Honest, unflinching and worthy of reappraisal.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Ugly, disturbing, and misguided mess.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 30, 2006

Pointless and an excruciating bore.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 27, 2006

The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito: Nicola Pecorini's cinematography has verve but no visual sense, and the film's self-important pace turns deadening over the long haul.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 27, 2006

Becomes an excruciating exercise in gothic excess and progressively more disgusting imagery.

| Oct 26, 2006

A triumph of costuming and production design over plot, theme and main characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

The film drags in the middle and feels excruciatingly slow and repetitive in the final stretch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2006

Tideland's unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2006

It's crazy, dangerous and sometimes gorgeous: a feast of nuttiness that takes you, for a while, over the edge.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2006

I came very close to walking out of the screening room. And I never do that.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2006

The film has nary a gram of human reality or compassion anywhere in it.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2006

The movie is brave, strong, deeply felt, and frequently brilliant, and it does exactly what it sets out to do. But what it sets out to do is distressingly unpleasant.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Oct 13, 2006

An endless, pointless drone with characters like bacteria and dialogue like an untuned radio.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 13, 2006

A murky swamp of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

Despite a few psychologically insightful touches about how children learn to survive misery, Tideland is borderline unwatchable, although, as is true of all Gilliam movies, it certainly is different.

| Original Score: D | Oct 12, 2006

Gilliam drains any remaining signs of life and humanity from his adult characters, underscoring their grotesqueness with expressionistic camera work and shock-tactic effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 12, 2006

This time [Gilliam] has stumbled into a different no-manâ(TM)s land, the one between the merely bad and the completely indefensible.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 12, 2006

The movie dies early on, but it keeps hanging around, looking a little more rotten with each new scene.

| Original Score: F | Oct 11, 2006

Fittingly ending with a train wreck, Tideland careens about wildly to only slightly rewarding effect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2006