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1.5
Its so unrelentingly morose that it makes Monsters Ball look like Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
Av Club
2.5
An ambitious experiment that never quite jells, Stay is the cinematic equivalent of creme brulee, deliciously ethereal when it works but downright dif ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
In fact, it makes the whole film seemlike little more than a stylishly staged shaggy dog story.
Screen Daily
4.4
The visual strategy in Marc Forsters Stay is so subtle you might miss it, but it provides a clue to the movies secret.I will describe the strategy but ..
Rogerebert
3.5
Most people will either absolutely love or absolutely hate Stays eclectic style and unorthodox finish.
Cinema Blend
4.0
Music Wide Awake: Song of Summer People tended to view the question in one of three ways: Any song that has the word summer in the title; a song that ..
Village Voice
2.2
Promising depth, it can only deliver some first class performances by its superb cast of Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, and Naomi Watts.
Sover
2.5
Keeping viewers guessing is a noble tradition that assumes clever viewers and even cleverer filmmakers, but Stay banks on the notion that everyone is ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
Does it symbolize something.Is Sam and Henrys connectedness relevant to the films psychology
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
You may think youve got David Benioffs script all figured out, with its broad hints about this and thatmistaken identity, miracle healings and other t ..
News Review
1.0
Gosling and Watts fare slightly better but thats not saying much.In short, this is a disaster from beginning to end.
View London
1.0
Stay wants to be good, creepy fun, but by the middle of the film, I was so uninterested in the plot I became obsessed with McGregors pants
Film Journal
1.3
Clinical psychology is one thing, but who wants a clinical psychological thriller
Boston
4.5
Only last week, I complained that Tony Scotts Domino was a movie where grafted on style replaced substance.By contrast, Forsters film is one where the ..
Mountain X
3.1
Jerry Holt, Star Tribune A man was fatally shot by St. Paul police in the 900 block of St. Anthony Avenue early on Sunday, Aug. 5.
Star Tribune
2.0
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
2.5
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa R runtime 99 minutes Limited Release Date 10/21/05 performer Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Janeane Garofalo, Ry ..
Ew
1.0
Great direction makes Stay a visual marvel, along with a great performance from Gosling, but beyond that, a brutally dull premise, matched with a chee ..
Cinema Crazed
2.0
You can rely on Goldthwaite to demolish sentimental notions with the power of a force ten gale, but clumsy filmmaking seriously hampers his ideas own ..
Empire
2.5
Beautiful, haunting and ultimately transcendent, Stay is a mysterious journey well worth making.
Eye For Film
1.5
Because if nothing else and there really is very little in the way of emotional heft here it looks really great.
Movies
2.5
What does the film say about human experience and the value of memory
Sf Gate
1.3
Sleeping Dogs Lie lacks the marquee names and production values of big studio romantic comedies, but it connects on an emotional level most of them fa ..
Sf Gate
2.0
The best advice is to sit back and enjoy the tricksy editing and quality cast instead.
Bbc
1.0
When the movie finally explains everything, there is no relief, just a visually beautiful, yet completely unfulfilling, conclusion on the Brooklyn Bri ..
Washington Post
2.5
Wondering Is that all there is when the end credits roll is a definite and warranted possibility for a corkscrew thriller that ends up emphasizing the ..
The Movie Boy
2.5
(Movies may have gotten dumber, but audiences have gotten smarter, and filmmakers would be wise to realize that.)
Bullz-Eye
4.5
Stay (review) Ah, this is one of those movies that starts off intriguing and tricksy, gets bogged down after a while with its own inventiveness so tha ..
Flickfilosopher
3.1
Stay is interesting, but its hard to recommend to anyone but the small cadre of David Lynch devotees who will inhale anything with a whiff of similari ..
ReelViews
2.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
3.1
You eventually stop saying What the hell and start to get a pretty good idea how Stay is going to end up.And when the final twist is handed down its s ..
Hollywood
3.2
Their conviction supports the grief and guilt that fills the film like a fog.Yet for a film so affectingly steeped in loss, resignation and the ghosts ..
Seattle Pi
1.2
Screenwriter David Benioff (Troy) is largely to blame for the cinematic disaster, but director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) does nothing to salvag ..
Coles Mithey
3.8
With its thoroughly baffling storyline and visuals that often border on experimental, the film seems as though itd be more at home in an arthouse than ..
Reel Film
3.8
Whole Body Stay earns a recommendation.It does something few other movies try to do; it introduce art (not just craft, or prettiness, or gorgeous phot ..
Movie Habit
4.5
It may be intimidating to some and frustrating to others, but Stay is definitely worth checking out for a taste of something different.
7M Pictures
2.5
We asked for the top 100 OHIP billers and the Star has won at the Court of Appeal In another chapter of a four year legal battle that began with a Sta ..
The Star
4.5
The problem for most audiences will be the fact that the fantasy doesnt unfold from a single perspective.
Urban Cine File
0.6
The main reason that I went to see it in the first place was simply because its being marketed as a supernatural thriller with horror overtones, but h ..
Three Movie Buffs
2.5
Six people were shot, and two women were killed, in various incidents of violence across Kansas City overnight.
Kansas City
3.5
It is spiritual; it is severe; it examines an age that is dominated by technology, science, and metropolitan capital; it attains a state of grace (eve ..
The Stranger
1.9
Conversely, when a director has to resort to camera trickery, it is clearly to distract the audience from a lacking script.
Big Picture Big Sound
2.5
Stay is almost a good movie, but the ending left something to be desired.
Waffle Movies
4.5
Everything is bound together, just not by the laws of time and spouse, but by something more primal and powerful; the human soul.
ComingSoon
3.0
Unfortunately, this quiet and serene approach, combined with the contorted narrative and familiar trappings, combine to make Stay feel a whole lot lik ..
Dvd Talk
1.9
And then theres that plot, the whole reason I need you to throw me a bone the brain power you expend making sense of it is better spent elsewhere.
Denver Post
2.0
Stay is a heartless puzzle that builds no empathy for its characters, no pathos at all, as it is giving us many cryptic clues that dont really lead to ..
Orlando Sentinel
4.0
While I will not dare breech how this all works, let me just say that its worth the trip.
Films Nobs
3.0
Game of Thrones: Sounds Like the Iron Bank Wont Be in the Final Season IGN News The representative of the Iron Bank, Tycho Nestoris played by Mark Gat ..
Film Force Ign
1.9
Forsters disjointed cuts and camera angles fail to spice things up as intended. Instead, he seems to be killing time until the films trick ending.
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