Under the Silver Lake

2019

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A24 | Release Date: April 19, 2019 | R

Starring: Allie MacDonald, Andrew Garfield, Callie Hernandez, Chris Gann, Deborah Geffner, Grace Van Patten, Jeannine Cota, Jeremy Bobb, Jessica Makinson, Jimmi Simpson, Laura Leigh, Patrick Fischler, Riki Lindhome, Riley Keough, Sibo Mlambo, Summer Bishil, Sydney Sweeney, Topher Grace, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Zosia Mamet

Summary: Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy… Expand

Director: David Robert Mitchell

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 139 min

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Joshua Rothkopf

May 16, 2018

The ambition of Under the Silver Lake is worth cherishing. It will either evaporate into nothingness or cohere into something you’ll want to hug for being so wonderfully weird. Read full review

IndieWireEric Kohn

May 16, 2018

It’s fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist. Read full review

Ty Burr

Jul 5, 2019

The dread in Mitchell’s film never cuts to the bone, because we never really care about his characters. Read full review

Rafael Motamayor

Oct 12, 2018

Under the Silver Lake never finds a reason for being as weird as it is, making for a confusing and frustrating experience despite its hypnotic visuals and great score. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

May 16, 2018

Under the Silver Lake gets its hooks in you, but it’s a good-bad movie: an academic stab at making the darkness visible. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Apr 17, 2019

The sweet smarts of Mitchell’s first movie, “The Myth of the American Sleepover” (treated to a bit of auto-allusion in “Silver Lake”) aren’t much in evidence here. Nor are the slippery psychosexual scares of “It Follows,” his breakthrough horror movie from 2015. The ambitions this time are grander, but also vaguer and duller. Read full review

The GuardianPeter Bradshaw

May 16, 2018

This film just wades into a murky lake of self-consciousness and sinks inexorably to the bottom. Read full review

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CrazyStupidJake

Jul 30, 2019

To say I was anticipating this film would be a massive understatement. I wanted to wait to see it in theaters but I had another 4 months to go and I couldn’t hold out any longer so I streamed it so long ago. I will definitely be rewatching this over-and-over again in the coming months so I… Expand

bfoore90

Aug 7, 2019

Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, Under The Silver Lake is incredibly vague. Thats just putting it mildly, Andrew Garfield plays a lost 33 year old whose unemployed wandering aimlessly throughout life until he meets a neighbor whom then disappears, sending him on a quest to… Expand

Robwinz

May 1, 2020

Under The Silver Lake is an underrated masterpiece, the movie has got a really incredible plot with some amazing performances from such characters as Sam (Andrew Garfield) and Sarah (Riley Keough) and I’ll even say when Topher Graces character shows up during this movie he gives a really… Expand

Ash2000kingo

Jun 29, 2020

The theme and plot are formidably unconventional but, the performance of Andrew Garfield is up the table. Really the guy can play anything on the big screen. Loved it

GrantD243

Aug 26, 2019

Under the Silver Lake is extremely odd and is tonally all over the place, but it’s also incredibly intriguing. I was entranced the entire runtime and thought about it for several days after watching it. It’s not for everyone, but I really enjoyed the weirdness.

Bertaut1

Apr 19, 2019

Just like Mulholland Drive. Except really, really awful

Under the Silver Lake is a pretentious, self-indulgent, convoluted, overlong mess. Positioning itself as equal parts neo-noir and genre subversion, it’s essentially a cross between David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (2001) and Thomas… Expand