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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNow is Slipstream worth seeing? I think so, if you'll actively engage your sympathy with Hopkins' attempt to do something tricky and difficult. If you want to lie back and let the movie come to you, you may be lying there a long time.
- 70Film ThreatFilm ThreatSlipstream is a properly bizarre journey.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttAmusing cinematic buffoonery by a man poking fun at movie conventions and the movie business itself.
- 50VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerApparently needing to release some private thoughts, musings and images to the world, Anthony Hopkins takes a leap into stunning self-indulgence with his directorial debut, Slipstream.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceHopkins claims it's a comedy, and perhaps John Turturro's live-action cartoon of a mogul producer suggests so, but what does it all mean? That art can be just as shallow as Hollywood?
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThe film has moments of goofy delight, some pseudo-David Lynch spookery and a couple of comic supporting turns.
- Bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghIf not exactly dull, Hopkins' stream-of-consciousness rant is nonetheless self-indulgent and crammed with bits of business that never add up to anything much.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumNot so much ill conceived and misdirected as unconceived and undirected, this is folly on a grand scale.
- 33The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe result is either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.