SUBMITTED BY Movieman129

May 23, 2002 —

Entertainment Weekly raved an A- for Insomnia. Here's what they had to say about the film:

As in ''Memento,'' ''Insomnia'' (a remake, scripted by first-timer Hillary Seitz, of an already terrific 1997 Norwegian film starring Stellan Skarsgard) is about a man who comes to distrust his own perceptions, and who must negotiate a jury-rigged system of clues and ethics to accomplish his goals. But this time Nolan links his stylish cinematic moves more effortlessly to his characters' inner lives. (This time his characters actually have inner lives.) So, for example, when Dormer attempts more and more desperately to block out the light (of reckoning, after a lifetime of compromises) leaking into his hotel room, the shards and slashes of imagery Nolan assembles convey more than cool, kinetic art direction -- they also express believable psychic unraveling.

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