Dreamland

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Dreamland

2020

1h 32m

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On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.

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Critics Consensus

While it may entrance audiences in search of the thoroughly strange, Dreamland lives down to its title by failing to cohere in any meaningful way.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

All over the place, but in a kind of interesting way...

Nov 11, 2020

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William Hughes

AV Club

In the end, Dreamland never bothers to decide whether it's trying to be an elegiac, philosophical head trip or an over-the-top action thriller.

Rated: C

Jun 6, 2020

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Brad Wheeler

Globe and Mail

Midnight meets madness in a surrealist exercise in existentialism and deft satire that will unsettle the average viewer while exciting those with freakier tastes.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 6, 2020

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

It makes sense that one of Dreamland's lead characters is a jazz player because McDonald has made a Bebop movie, a deconstructed genre flick with a fast tempo and unexpected story angles with only occasional references to expected genre tropes.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 30, 2021

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Chris Knight

National Post

To have one Stephen McHattie in your movie may be considered a fortuitous accident. To have two is clearly casting genius.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 11, 2020

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Evan Saathoff

Birth.Movies.Death.

While perhaps unsatisfying, there is a lot of pleasure to be found occasionally bubbling to the film's surface.

Nov 11, 2020

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Brad P

Mobsters and junkies and vampires, oh my. Just like the best jazz songs, Dreamland has to go off the rails a little before it finds the melody.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

I think I will like anything Mchattie is in even if I have to deal with Juliette Lewis. I enjoyed Henry Rollins, he is always good at playing sleaze balls. this was a crazy weird movie. loved the visuals

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/05/22

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john s

SINGLE PEAK Venerable Canuck director Bruce McDonald returns to the big screen with a busy, all you can watch cinema buffet of cult-aspiring dishes. Maybe as a series of small, TV sized bites, this could work, but it becomes quite a taxing muddle in one sitting. The good: Stephen McHattie. His excellent turn helming McDonald's wonderfully crazed "Pontypool" is reason for high anticipation. Not surprisingly, McHattie shines in a dual role tour de force of endless, crackly Clint Eastwood close ups, and tough guy bad assery. The bad: A dual role is seldom a good idea. It is a disruptive smoke and mirrors trick, and proves too clever and distracting for it's own good. More bad: Juliette Lewis, who has the chops to be fabulously sensational, is fabulously awful, awkwardly embracing a despicable role in a volcanic spew of boorish overacting in an unsavoury role. There's more. The list is long. We have a child sex ring. We have Henry Rollins raging. We have a silly vampire. We have a wedding. We have kid gangsters. We have a mess. Brimming with taboo subjects, theatrical violence, absurd sequences, nightclub lighting, an endless stream of odd characters, "Dreamland" is a prickly stab at "Twin Peaks" cultdom. McHattie almost pulls it off, with a quirky performance for the ages that includes a bizarro Chet Baker impersonation. But it's not enough. Exactly what McDonald is trying to achieve here is anyone's guess. How about an insider's heroin trip? Let's go with that. - hipCRANK

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Definitely not a “bad” movie per say . Also nothing new to the genre . A lifelong hit man has a change of heart when his ethical line is crossed 2.4

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/02/20

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On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.

Director: Bruce McDonald
Producer: Jesus Gonzalez-Elvira, Amber Ripley, Sebastian Schelenz
Screenwriter: Tony Burgess, Patrick Whistler
Distributor: Uncork'd Entertainment, Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Velvet Film, Calach Films, Goodbye Productions
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 5, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 3, 2020
Runtime: 1h 32m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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