Reviews
Altered States
Directed by Ken Russell · starring William Hurt, Blair Brown and Bob Balaban
- 5 from the press
- 6.6 · 1 vote
Altered States: reviews
Reviews
6.6 1 vote
What the critics say average 6.6 from 5 outlets
- 8.8 Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
'Altered States' is a superbly silly movie, a magnificent entertainment, and a clever and brilliant machine for making us feel awe, fear, and humor.
Read - 8.0 TimeRichard Corliss
Orchestrating the efforts of a superb production team Russell has devised a film experience that will astound some viewers, outrage others and bore nobody.
Read - 6.0 EmpireIan Nathan
Not one to let slow-building tension and mystery get in the way of wild flourishes of extremism and shock, Ken Russell hit upon a story that more or less handled his structural excesses and tendency toward blasphemy.
Read - 6.0 New York TimesJanet Maslin
The film is in fine shape as long as it revels in its own craziness, making no claims on the viewer's reason. But when it asks you to believe that what you're watching may really be happening, and to wonder what it means, it is asking far too much.
Read - 4.0 The New YorkerPauline Kael
An aggressively silly head-horror movie, the result of the misalliance of two wildly different hyperbolic talents-the director Ken Russell and the writer Paddy Chayefsky.
Questions about the reviews of Altered States
- What score does Altered States have?
- Readers give it 6.6 (1 vote). The critics, 6.6 on average from 5 reviews.
- What do the critics say about Altered States?
- The highest score is Chicago Sun-Times’s (8.8) and the lowest The New Yorker’s (4.0).