The Pink Cloud

critic Reviews

, 93% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • An eerily relevant debut from writer-director Iuli Gerbase, The Pink Cloud reaches into the emotional fault lines of pandemic life and comes away with striking observations about human behavior.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Bilge EbiriNew York Magazine/Vulture
    I was impressed, agitated, terrified, depressed by this movie - but I also couldn't help feeling like I had maybe not ultimately seen the film its director wanted me to see.
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    Robert AbeleLos Angeles Times
    If you're game for an emerging filmmaking talent's stingingly uncanny foretelling, "The Pink Cloud" is an arresting examination of what it can look like when existence is misshaped into a compromised destiny.
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    Michael O'SullivanWashington Post
    "The Pink Cloud" is prescient and mildly affecting, if also susceptible to the question: Is it too soon to be watching a pandemic allegory while we're still living through a pandemic?
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    Ciara WardlowRogerEbert.com
    The intentionality and editorial eye that make the style of this film so compelling feels sorely lacking from the script, which is at once scattered and repetitive.
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    Katie RifeAV Club
    This thoughtful film reflects well on the writer-director who made it.
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    Claire ShafferNew York Times
    Like other works of prescient sci-fi, "The Pink Cloud" forecasts an eerie funhouse-mirror image of our present lives.
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    Sarah BoslaughTheArtsStl
    This film feels surprisingly calm and reassuring. In a world weary from a global pandemic, that’s worth a lot.
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    Dennis Harvey48 Hills
    It’s an intelligent, well-crafted drama, though I’m not sure whether it benefits or suffers from an imaginatively-conceived story that fate has instead rendered all too experientially familiar.
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    Douglas DavidsonElements of Madness
    ... "The Pink Cloud" is a searing and raw experience, ripping up centuries of patriarchal thinking and holding it to the light.
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    Alex SavelievFilm Threat
    Whatever you take from it, the drama is bound to hover over you for days.
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