A Scanner Darkly

By
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is the former film critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2014.
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Published on July 14, 2006 04:00AM EDT

Trippy yet maddening to sit through. Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel stays true to its paranoid conundrums, with rotoscoped images that melt like liquid shadow. Yet as the actors (Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr.) yap away in a stoned torpor, their freak-outs never become ours.

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