Kaleidoscope

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Kaleidoscope

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

12/26/2017

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

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Katie Walsh

Los Angeles Times

12/20/2017

"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.

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Anna Smith

Time Out

12/20/2017

4/5

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.

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Tom Beasley

VultureHound

08/16/2020

3/5

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

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Rob Aldam

Backseat Mafia

09/18/2019

A slippery psychological thriller

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Josh Goller

Spectrum Culture

07/20/2019

3.75/5

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

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04/24/2020

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!

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11/19/2019

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

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10/14/2019

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.

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04/14/2019

"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!

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10/23/2018

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...

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09/03/2018

What did I just watch?

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Synopsis

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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