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Vanilla Sky
M (AUSTRALIA)
2001
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Positive Reviews
32
Negative reviews
12
Average Rating
3.2
/5
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3.5
But its Crowes assured if often over the top direction (coupled with Amenabar and Gils script) that makes Vanilla Sky a success.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
And unfortunately, Vanilla Sky gets more baffling as it goes along, and it doesnt know how and when to end.
Screen Daily
3.8
Think it all the way through, and Cameron Crowes Vanilla Sky is a scrupulously moral picture.
Rogerebert
4.5
Surreal, mysterious, engaging, clever and most of all, entertaining, this film has rightfully earned itself a place in my top ten list of the year.
JoBlo
2.5
Its a star vehicle commercial film that I would not totally dismiss.
Sover
2.0
An overblown Twilight Zone episode, this nearly scene for scene remake of 1998s slickly creepy ABRE LOS OJOS (Open Your Eyes) feels enervated and logy ..
Tv Guide
3.8
Though Crowe dispenses with the horror of the original, he manages to make the picture a nightmarish thrill ride worth taking.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.1
Its in the actual storyline and plotting that Vanilla Sky has its most success.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
What works in a quirky foreign film can look silly with expansive Hollywood treatment.Crowe is smart enough to know this, so its baffling he chose Van ..
Usa Today
3.8
Its a mind twisting psychological thriller of mythic proportions.
Lariat
2.8
Crowes directorial style shows surprising warmth and honesty the hallmarks of his films until the end, when it turns cold.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
This sort of surrealistic Fatal Attraction is a remake of the 1997 Spanish psychological thriller Open Your Eyes.
News Review
3.0
Its just too bad that the remake doesnt possess the same spark or eerie quality that the first film exuded with less effort.
Screen It
3.5
Its all very introspective and thought provoking, and in the end it leaves us thoroughly shaken, contemplating issues of identity and ambition.Intrigu ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
However, a great cast, a decent soundtrack and some memorable scenes make it ultimately worth watching.
View London
3.8
The math seems even better when you add actress Cameron Diaz and director Cameron Crowe, two of Hollywoods hippest young talents.
Cs Monitor
2.0
This approach might have yielded an interesting movie, but Crowe and Cruise unfortunately use it as a license to transform the story into something it ..
Film Journal
2.5
Ultimately, Crowe might be the wrong director for rendering dark, disturbing tones onscreen.
Emanuellevy
1.5
But it was a jumbled mess.Too many dream sequences and too much repetition annoyed me.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.0
Vanilla Sky left nothing to my imagination.On the way to its finale, the movie offers a mind bending story.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.8
Its my job to parse the inconsistencies of even the most confusing movies, but halfway through Vanilla Sky, there wasnt much I could do but throw up m ..
Ew
2.5
Most impressive is Cameron Diaz, whose fatal attraction stalker is both heartbreaking and terrifying.
Sf Gate
4.0
Genre traversing and emotionally bold, this is Cameron Crowes art film visually beautiful and thought provoking.
Bbc
2.5
This Onion blurb serves a more imminent function as tagline for the whole of Vanilla Sky, a masturbatory pop culture thriller that services Cameron Cr ..
Slant Magazine
1.9
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Mr Brown Movies
5.0
With an increasingly twisty, enigmatic narrative, the film is, at once, a romance, drama, thriller, science fiction, horror, and even downright Lynchi ..
The Movie Boy
3.8
.Laura: Amenabars 1997 Open Your Eyes was a totally original, if cold and somewhat sterile, look at a privileged, spoiled young man discovering the po ..
Reeling Reviews
3.8
The Spanish language film is the better version, but Vanilla Sky is a credible substitute for subtitle phobic audiences.
ReelViews
2.5
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
3.8
But lets allow the man a certain Kubrickian enigma; he has risked big time charges of taking a movie star ego trip to give us a witty, audaciously tho ..
Seattle Pi
2.5
Some of its a dream, some of its reality.None of it makes much sense.
Cnn
3.1
That should give you a pretty good idea what Cameron Crowe has done with Vanilla Sky.
Spliced Wire
1.0
Rosie DiManno: Sometimes, the truth simply will never be known Last week we learned that we likely will never learn the cause of two spectacular myste ..
The Star
2.5
Admittedly, that film an off beat blend of fantasy, science fiction, romance and thriller may not be the mind blowing experience that its adherents cl ..
Deseret News
3.5
This is where the film lacks and where it turns our wonder and awe into something of a disappointment.
Urban Cine File
3.0
Some will love it, others will hate it, either way youll have plenty to talk about afterwards.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.8
But that pendulumming mood, even Crowe cant quite keep a firm grip on the dangerously reckless spirit of the film.
Ross Anthony
5.0
The burning cauldron of the subconscious can boil over with too much pop culture poured in.
The Filmy Ap
1.9
The fault is not solely hers, since the script by Mr. Crowe keeps mistaking one liners for wit.The disturbing message permeating the film seems to be: ..
Big Picture Big Sound
2.5
This is consistent with Crowes kinder, gentler sensibility, but its a mistake.
News Week
4.0
VANILLA SKY Rated R Running Time: 2:25 Released 12/14/01 The vanilla sky in Vanilla Sky refers to a Monet painting owned by the main character, but in ..
Film Quips Online
1.5
You see, there are some plot twists you can tack onto just about anything, if you really want to.Darn.
Decent Films
2.5
Crowe is better at more light weight fare that taps into the pop cultural zeitgeist than with something like this which has more portentous themes.
Scifi Movie Page
2.5
The pacing keeps things moving, and for a 140 minute film, it flows pretty easily.
Flip Side Archive
3.5
96 photos of Woodward Dream Cruise through the years New York Giants 30, Detroit Lions 17 in preseason game at Ford Field Detroit reacts to passing of ..
Freep
3.8
It remains afloat on the strength of the twisty, surprising plot and the sure footed direction by Cameron Crowe, who makes his first foray into the th ..
Film Blather
4.0
McDermott: Bills QB competition remains wide open A.J. McCarron took first team reps Wednesday and Thursday, but that was by design and Sean McDermott ..
Rochester Goes Out
3.0
Cruises performance lacks the proper menace, and Crowes direction lacks dramatic power.
Films Nobs
3.8
The film is a cleverly plotted thriller, and almost nothing in that plot has changed in the films Anglicization.
Movie Martyr
4.5
SDCC 2018 is in the books and Hal Rudnick was on the on the floor in San Diego checking out the best cosplay, exclusive sights, and more at Comic Con! ..
I Film
4.2
The answers provided in Vanilla Sky are a little limiting and the journey is a little long, but its an exciting exploration nonetheless.
About Film
2.0
Some of it fits well and most of the songs are good, but theres a point when Crowe should have given this love affair a rest and invested more attenti ..
Movies Radio Free
1.5
Crowe asks the viewer to absorb this more viscerally than intellectually; how much one enjoys (or even accepts) the experience will likely depend on t ..
Reverse Shot
5.0
Or, much worse, manipulate my nightmares.Suffice it to say that Vanilla Sky is a brazenly challenging and richly rewarding fable about actions and con ..
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