Atom User Reviews for High Life

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KL
Kimberly Landstrom
#intense
#beautiful
#incomprehensible

A movie that can’t be explained it must be experienced.

RM
Ryan McCain
#slow

well. what to say. I'm an hour into it and I'm still not sure what is going on. I usually like odd movies but this is pretty boring. I bet an artsy type of person would appreciate more.

TP
Tyler Pinegar
#indiehit
#original
#greatcast

Existential, hard sci-fi art-house flick.

KF
Kim Frink
#greatcast
#indiehit
#surprising

Great film.

ML
Mark Lee
#intense
#justokay
#cliché
AF
Arnaud FONTENAY
#boring
#cliché
KK
Kymber Kymber
#intense
#indiehit
#original
JR
Jason Ratigan
#original
#creepy
#leavekidsathome
DL
Dallas Lind
#notmyfave
#creepy
#surprising
SC
Stephen Cagnina
#original
#smart
#surprising
AM
Adrian Moore
#smart
LS
Leslie Scott
#indiehit
#intense
#original
SE
Sofonias Elala
#indiehit
#original
#seeingitagain
NH
Nicolette Hogan
JC
Jeff Cannon
#intense
VS
Vincent Sealey
#intense
#original
BD
Blake Deemer
#original
#indiehit
#goodbutnotgreat
TS
Tammie Salinas
#justokay
PH
Phil Huebschen
#justokay
#ihavealotofquestions
#notmyfave
DZ
Diana Zuluaga
CP
Cam Perroni
MA
Matthew Anderson
KK
Ken Keith
MM
Mickey Mickey
BL
Brittyn Lindsey

Metacritic

100
Dec 1, 2021

The lure of intense mystery that beguiles you into trying to solve it again and again; the transference of an intoxication that makes you feel physically different afterwards. It sounds hyperbolic to describe art as having such power, but surely the reason we care about art is a belief that such power exists. High Life is too layered, too ambiguous, too potent to be about any one thing.

Sophie Monks Kaufman
Little White Lies
88
Apr 9, 2019

Transfixing? A bore? I cannot answer for you. If think Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” is as far out as you go with this sort of setting, this is not your thing. Undeniably, though, High Life is an organic achievement.

Metacritic review by Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan
Chicago Tribune