Kaleidoscope

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Kaleidoscope

Released Dec 8, 2017

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

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Recently released from prison, mild-mannered Carl quietly attempts to move on with his life. But Carl's fresh start is shattered by the sudden reappearance of his domineering mother, whose presence awakens within him a deep-seated trauma.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

An intricately crafted, infinitely wrongfooting psychological thriller in which conflicting realities coalesce, diverge and regroup like so many shifting formations of jewel-colored glass.

Dec 26, 2017

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Katie Walsh

Los Angeles Times

"Kaleidoscope" is brilliantly crafted and performed, but it's a bit too taken with its own muddling of facts and form to truly hook into.

Dec 20, 2017

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Anna Smith

Time Out

Haggard, painful, longing, poignant, confused, alarmed, amused, dejected, sinister... [Toby] Jones can be all these things without saying a word. You're with him all the way, trying to decode the mysteries of his life and psyche.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 20, 2017

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Tom Beasley

VultureHound

It's an inscrutable, opaque beast that resists any attempt to pin it down.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 16, 2020

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

A slippery psychological thriller

Sep 18, 2019

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Josh Goller

Spectrum Culture

Kaleidoscope is a micro-budget gem that adds a decidedly 21st century bent to Hitchcockian suspense.

Rated: 3.75/5

Jul 20, 2019

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Kellie M

6 months after the heist, Leo shows a letter from his daughter signed "HANNA" in large letters. Hannah's name is spelled with two h's, which would've been an ok mistake except that there's a whole scene where Hannah and her dad talk about how her name is spelled the same forwards and back. Lots of weird prop mistakes and inconsistencies like this all over the show that turned it into a joke by the last few episodes.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/03/23

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Personally wtf did I just watch ... acting 5 stars but that's all I can say that's positive about it ...and what a terrible let down ending ... needed more in the film about the mother /son relationship to grip you ..too slow too confusing .. it's a thumbs down sorry!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Hard to understand plot. Toby Jones is great as usual.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Audience Member

This has a strong Toby Jones vibe about it, which is a good thing in my book. A nice atmospheric thriller, that hit all my nostalgia buttons. It feels like a false memory of what TV thrillers were like in my childhood, but better.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/26/19

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Audience Member

"Psychological thriller" my white pale ass. It's a piece of crap. Pseudointellectuals are trying to write pseudo intelligent reviews psycoblabbing about the 'dark corners of the mind" and the "twisted reality." BS! There's no script, no direction, no acting, no good cinematography. It's crap!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Ambitious and beautiful but hard for me to appreciate because I couldn't understand what was going on. Lots of disturbing scenes and themes, but without the story to justify their deployment. Over my head I guess...

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Recently released from prison, mild-mannered Carl quietly attempts to move on with his life. But Carl's fresh start is shattered by the sudden reappearance of his domineering mother, whose presence awakens within him a deep-seated trauma.

Director: Rupert Jones
Producer: Maggie Monteith, Matthew James Wilkinson
Screenwriter: Rupert Jones
Distributor: Self Distributed
Production Co: Dignity Film Finance, Stigma Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 8, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2017
Runtime: 1h 40m

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