Tideland

  • 2006


MOVIE IS unfettered unpleasant fascinating impressive emotional
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38 %
31 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 17
Negative reviews 19
Average Rating 2.7/5
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1.5
The movie examines how a childs inner world gets corrupted by her squalid outer world, and Gilliam doesnt spare the squalor. Av Club
2.0
The movie dies early on, but it keeps hanging around, looking a little more rotten with each new scene. EW
4.5
Gilliams brash disregard for conventional narrative rhythms and structures is one of the many thrills of his best work, but here his freewheeling navi .. Time Out
1.5
Hes less of a hero, and the movie doesnt spark during his quiet romantic scenes with Loren.
2.5
Because I dont do it for fame, I dont even care about being famous actually.
0.5
Becomes an excruciating exercise in gothic excess and progressively more disgusting imagery.
2.0
Jodelle Ferland iswide eyed and willing but doesnt find the emotional shadings necessary tobring the character alive. Screen Daily
4.0
Part Lewis Carroll, part Alfred Hitchcock, part Andrew Wyeth, part Terrence Malick and all Terry Gilliam, it is a unique and personal vision that, lik .. E Film Critic
2.0
The dismal subject matter is beautifully shot, but Tideland merrily dances on the line between the merely unpleasant and the completely unwatchable.
0.0
This is not a movieits an exercise in pushing boundaries way past the level of suitability and taking bad taste to unholy heights. Cinema Blend
1.9
What we get, sadly, is easily the worst production Gilliam has ever been involved in, either behind the camera or in front of it. Tideland is, by turn .. ReelViews
3.1
Terry Gilliams uncompromising adaptation of Mitch Cullins disquieting novel of adolescent fantasy and madness further cements Gilliams reputation as a .. Tv Guide
3.8
Perhaps once we leave these squeamish times, Tideland will emerge like one of Welles later films as a misunderstood classic. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
Gilliam is as inventive as ever addressing this fascinating, important topic, but its a very hard film to watch. Shadows On The Wall
2.0
There are some impressive visual moments but ultimately this is like watching an annoying child running around and shrieking about her imaginary frien .. View London
1.3
Mama (Jennifer Tilly , doing Courtney Love with the volume set at 11) doesnt stick around long, and father Noah (Jeff Bridges) doesnt want to answer l .. Boston
1.9
A triumph of costuming and production design over plot, theme and main characters. Toronto Star
2.0
Gilliams plan to make a small budget film of limited scope that would leave him free to display his unfettered creative genius sounds good on paper. H .. Flim List
4.5
Terry Gilliam has again stretched his craft to fashion a work of tragedy tinged fantasy that uses the full range of dark movie making tools to great e ..
3.0
Tideland contains more shining, jewel like moments than most films. It will reward your patience. Bbc
2.5
However misguided and off the mark Tideland may be, you cant say that it lacks artistic merit. Las Vegas Weekly
2.0
Tidelands unmodulated frenzy has the effect of a prolonged shriek, too high and shrill for individual words to make themselves heard. Calendar Live
2.0
When the little girl tells her decapititated doll, Its not just a bad dream, she is right. Its just a bad movie. Seattle Pi
2.0
It seems, from the flat out filmic disaster of Tideland, that director Terry Gilliam is intent on ensuring a decisive end to his checkered filmmaking .. Coles Mithey
4.4
A diary of pain and a chronicle of the armour of mythology an imaginative mind expels to salve it away. Film Freak Central
4.5
Not for the faint hearted, to be sure, yet amid the swaying chaff there are moments of piercing grace and beauty when were reminded of the lost, lonel .. La Weekly
3.5
At the centre of it all is Jodelle Ferland, who simply gives an outstanding performance as the adorably innocent Jeliza Rose. Star Burst Magazine
4.5
Humor about idiot frat boys ingesting unidentifiable substances: very safe. The Stranger
0.0
Mr. Gilliams films have always been a bit hard to follow thats half the fun of watching them. Big Picture Big Sound
4.5
Lewis Carroll unnerves us today far more than Hitchcock, but plenty of viewers wont thank Gilliam for going there. Bfi
3.0
She is unfazed by their journey and doesnt question it when her father doesnt wake up. Future Movies
2.5
This is supposed to be a comedy, but its not easy to laugh at the dire situation that surrounds this innocent girl. TheMovieChicks.com
4.5
Terry Gilliams first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier. IGN Movies
3.0
Tideland is Gilliam unrestrained to be sure, and the result is a picture that has no chance at commercial success whatsoever %u2014 but a great shot a .. Movies Ign
3.5
Gilliam appears to be trying to throw us all off guard, to make the theatergoing experience unpleasant. But in its own unlovable way, the movie is an .. Cinematical
4.0
...in the midst of all the perverse chaos, a story emerges that is easily the most tender and even sentimental in all of Gilliams work. D Cist
1.0
A movie that fits perfectly in the Terry Gilliam oeuvre, except for the fact that it is a dismal, rank bore that so misses the thematic mark that it b .. Chud
2.0
film stands as a metaphor testifying for the basic resiliency of the human spirit Old School Reviews
2.5
This macabre fairy tale, a bizarre blend of surrealism and eccentricities, might be best described as a kinky cross of Psycho and Alice in Wonderland. BlackFilm.com
1.5
It works best when Gilliam allows Jeliza Rose to disappear inside her own mind, revelling in unrestricted solitude. Backseat Mafia
2.5
Tideland is frustrating for the way it refuses to coalesce. You watch the film feeling abused and exploited, never knowing whether theres a bottom to .. Arizona Daily Star
4.5
Its a tough sell for the masses, but cineastes need to watch, as much to see what Gilliam got right as to figure out what he got wrong. LYTRules.com



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