Fresh
If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
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Naqoyqatsi
Overview
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Director and cast
- Godfrey Reggio Director
- Marlon Brando as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Elton John as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Madonna as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Fidel Castro as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Paul McCartney as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Rotten
At its best, Naqoyqatsi awakens the eyes, but it doesn't really do much to tweak the conscience. It's difficult to feel a sense of outrage while you're in a trance.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh
If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change.
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
Pretentious, ponderous and redundant."
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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