Richard Kelly's debut feature Donnie Darko is a daring, original vision, packed with jarring ideas and intelligence and featuring a remarkable performance from Jake Gyllenhaal as the troubled title character.
The movie feels perfectly timed to coincide with our nation's latest flirtation with the apocalypse.
Read full articleA movie with something of Back to the Future, Twin Peaks, American Beauty and of course Harvey.
Read full articleDefines itself through sustained mood, otherworldly intrigue and deep, abiding humanism.
Read full articleJake Gyllenhaal, with an impish grin that exudes boyish charm, gives a breakout performance as Donnie Darko.
Read full articleOne of the best homages to Back to the Future. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full articleRewatching it now it's shocking how much it anticipated about life today. (20th anniversary)
Read full articleKelly adds to this central theme another of the topics that is constantly manifested throughout his work: the possibilities of the divine and the guilt of knowing those designs while we are alive.
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