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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude.
- 80TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghA fantastic symphony of decay (Decay + Fantasia = Decasia), simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad, pieced together from snippets of old films on the verge of oblivion.
- Nothing more -- and nothing less -- than a collage of decaying, decomposing nitrate film stock...The unexpected thing is that its dying, in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia, is quite beautiful.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyLacking any obvious thematic or emotional arc, compilation pic succeeds as a pure exercise in visual stimulus, its narcotic effect much amplified by Michael Gordon's thunderous, dissonant orchestral score.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe film asks us to embrace not only the death of beauty but the beauty of death.
- 10Film ThreatChris GoreFilm ThreatChris GoreI'm sure the filmmaker would disagree, but, honestly, I don't see the point. It's a visual Rorschach test and I must have failed.