Forgiving critics and moviegoers often call films without articulate points or well-defined characters “poems.” This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the ...

In an interview for the 2000 documentary The American Nightmare, director Tobe Hooper talked about how he used images and music to create the palpable sense of fear in his most famous film, The Texas ...

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival a few months ago, Primer writer-director Shane Carruth delivered another divisive work of science-fiction with the mesmerizing Upstream Color. Having recently ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

In 2004, Shane Carruth wowed Sundance Film Festival audiences with his heady time travel flick Primer, which he made with no prior filmmaking experience and shot (on film!) for a budget of around ...

In the early going of “Upstream Color,” one might almost conclude that a trackable story is emerging: We witness a young woman (Amy Seimetz) kidnapped, drugged and apparently robbed. Yes, the fact ...

Indie drama about an odd love story (1:36). Not rated: Sensuality, violence. IFC. There is an undeniable pull to the stream-of-consciousness storytelling filmmaker Shane Carruth (“Primer”) uses in ...

Bear with me on this quick story, which I think will make sense in the context of the Walker’s showing of “Upstream Color.” In college, I took a class on the American Renaissance writers, including ...

If I had more artistic talent, my review of Upstream Color would just be a text drawing of a pig made of question marks. I consider that the most accurate representation of the experience. I looked ...

As mystifying as his 2004 sci-fier, "Primer," albeit for entirely different reasons, Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color" is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking. “Primer” fans and ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...