Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival a few months ago, Primer writer-director Shane Carruth delivered another divisive work of science-fiction with the mesmerizing Upstream Color. Having recently ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Forgiving critics and moviegoers often call films without articulate points or well-defined characters “poems.” This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the ...

Shane Carruth‘s 2004 time travel drama “Primer” provoked endless scrutiny for its heavy reliance on tech speak that the director refused to dumb down. His long-awaited followup, “Upstream Color,” also ...

Filmmaker Shane Carruth’s micro-budget breakthrough “Primer” was a dense, realistic time travel drama of the sort nobody had seen before. Judging by his long-awaited second feature, “Upstream Color,” ...

Shane Carruth made his name in the independent film world in 2004 with his debut, “Primer,” a sci-fi, time-travel thriller that he wrote, directed, produced, edited, scored and starred in for a paltry ...

Let your mind wander... After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the second film from Primer director Shane Carruth, an abstract drug drama titled Upstream Color, will be hitting ...

As mystifying as his 2004 sci-fier, "Primer," albeit for entirely different reasons, Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color" is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking. “Primer” fans and ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

In an interview for the 2000 documentary The American Nightmare, director Tobe Hooper talked about how he used images and music to create the palpable sense of fear in his most famous film, The Texas ...

Meticulous and abstruse, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is an idiosyncratic film that invites explication but defies total understanding. It is Carruth’s sophomore film and has been eagerly ...

Both Oblivion and Upstream Color are successful at their very different aims, even though neither does the job of great science fiction. What science fiction does best—and I mean real, ...