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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesFrench director Gaspar Noe has kept a pretty low profile since his 2002 drama "Irreversible" notorious for its brutal nine-minute anal rape scene. But this epic, psychedelic mindfuck confirms him once again as the cinema's most imaginative nihilist.
- 90Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSuffice to say, unrelenting material like this isn't for everybody. That it is a gloriously filmic gesture - by turns jaw-dropping, elusive, silly, obnoxious, painful and beautiful - is celebration enough.
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasEnter The Void is a trance-like experience, feeding the shimmering neon of Tokyo at night into a spectacular hallucinogenic head-trip.
- 80Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearA strong contender for both the artiest drug movie and the druggiest art movie ever made, Gaspar Noé's tour de force of forced perspectives and free-form grief is, in every sense of the word, a trip.
- 80MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekA picture that's by turns inventive, tender and boring, and one that uses a variety of novelty point-of-view techniques: If Penisvision isn't your thing, then Vagin-o-rama just might float your boat.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceA mash-up of the sacred, the profane, and the brain-dead, Enter the Void is addictive.
- 70NPRMark JenkinsNPRMark JenkinsConfrontational and hyperactive, Enter the Void is a difficult film to experience. That's not because Noe is somehow inept. The Argentina-born French writer-director knows exactly what he's doing and what effect his swirling camera, exuberant colors and strobelike effects will have.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneBoxoffice MagazineRay GreeneEnter the Void was never going to be another "Avatar." It won't be another "Irreversible" either.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterMany flashbacks to the children's early trauma, along with other scenes, are unnecessarily repeated several times.
- 40VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonNot clever enough to be truly pretentious.