Southland Tales
With the United States under the threat of nuclear attack, the lives of several people converge in a dystopian Los Angeles. However, Marxist revolutionaries, greedy corporations and secretive government agencies pursue their separate agendas among a paranoid populace.
31 January 1965
10 July 1967, San Diego County, California, USA
14 April 1977, New York City, New York, USA
29 April 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 May 1933, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
16 September 1971, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
12 August 1969, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
24 May 1975, Ladner, British Columbia, Canada
December 17, 2013
As in Kelly's previous film, Southland's flaws, and its scope, are magnificently earnest; the guy is in way over his head, but his flailing is extravagant.
September 16, 2013
Writer-director Richard Kelly throws a lot at the wall. The problem, if that's what we should call it, is that everything sticks. That's bad news for those who like some narrative clarity, and great news for those who enjoy bonkers wall art.
November 16, 2007
By the time the movie rolls into its third hour, it's exhausted most of its comic energy, leaving you disoriented and unable to remember much of what you just saw.
July 23, 2011
Not much improvement over the vfirst, severely flawed version.
November 16, 2007
No amount of reworking could salvage what was a misbegotten and unfunny idea to begin with.
November 19, 2007
One of the most confusing, ridiculous, pretentious and disastrous cinematic train wrecks I've ever seen.
November 16, 2007
You can't be both political and incoherent.
November 16, 2007
Immature, crude, poorly made and a waste of time.
November 19, 2013
As the follow-up to his debut feature, the unexpectedly enduring teen-movie/sci-fi hybrid Donnie Darko, writer-director Richard Kelly has crafted an even more ambitious and far-reaching story
April 04, 2011
Dude, I have no idea.
December 07, 2007
By the climax, his truly ambitious, truly flawed film finally disappears into the 'time-space rift' (or whatever) to achieve some sort of cosmic transcendence.
June 11, 2013
Unusual and extremely ambitious with an alternate reality that is entirely absorbing; Southland Tales is Richard Kelly's magnum opus that only a small few are able to recognize. Thankfully, those small few are pimps. And pimps don't commit suicide.
