There’s a lot to unpack with Under the Silver Lake, and this is why I regard it as an interesting film despite its flaws. Given time, I believe this film could go on to be taken far more seriously...

| Oct 10, 2024

Feels like superfluous overstuffing in an attempt to be cryptic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

By the end of the film, I no longer cared about the conspiracy Sam is trying to uncover. That's a fatal flaw for any noir.

| Original Score: D | May 10, 2024

... will prove baffling, confusing and impenetrable to many but for those who can crack the code, a neon-noir masterpiece awaits them.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 10, 2022

The actors do their best to skate by on their own charisma, but they are mostly left stranded by a story that loses the forest for the trees.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 4, 2022

sprawling, obscure, obnoxious and deliberately alienating. But if youre prepared to try something a little off-menu, theres a lot to enjoy here

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2022

Under the Silver Lake does not invest the viewer on an emotional level.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 3, 2022

It aims for weirdness but delivers confusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Under the Silver Lake is a fever dream of cinematic wonderment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 29, 2021

Like a lot of good detective stories, Under the Silver Lake isn't entirely about the mechanics of its mystery so much as its detective's world.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 4, 2021

Even at two hours and fifteen minutes, the film still zips along, and I was never anything less than entertained.

| Jul 23, 2020

Where local movie theaters trudge out mainstream products that are simply copycats of one another, it's refreshing to find something that continually keeps you guessing, never settling for the easy way out.

| Original Score: A | Jul 8, 2020

There's no holding back from Mitchell who delivers a cult classic that will offer rewards for years to come.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Is it a flawed movie? Sure. But it's also a spectacular middle finger of a film, and that's just what Mitchell thinks we deserve. And maybe we do.

| Jan 17, 2020

Becoming entangled in this crazy spider's web of a conspiracy is more interesting than living a boring existence. Sam makes the most out of nothing. Under the Silver Lake is a spellbinding enigma of a film that is equally stimulating as it is mystifying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2019

Under the Silver Lake alternates between being incredibly compelling and frustratingly confused. And that'll work for some.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2019

Visually enthralling, it shamelessly embraces the tinselly dazzle of its setting. Yet it's no empty creation, achieving unlikely moments of poignancy when the absurdity somehow seems to make all the sense in the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2019

This is a long, weird movie, startlingly explicit at times, but oddly, and I do mean oddly, affecting.

| Jul 24, 2019

If Under the Silver Lake aimed to leave audiences baffled, it succeeds. It's an uneven tale of dream-like ideas, barely pinned to something one might generously call a plot

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 24, 2019

The fact that it's finally reached a theater near you is something of a miracle, and a movie with this much packed into it deserves to be seen on the big screen.

| Jul 24, 2019