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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The Film StageThe Film StageThe final result is a movie that feels as paranoid, cruel, ludicrous and radiation-poisoned as its characters; the kind of movie that is on an irregular and grotesque wavelength of its own making and will leave people not just in disbelief about what they just saw but what any of it meant, if it meant anything at all.
- 75Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe film is a vivid depiction of how a confrontation with the unknown can so easily shatter the fragile bonds that hold us together.
- 75The PlaylistCharles BramescoThe PlaylistCharles BramescoStanley ratchets up the off-kilter humor while playing down the deep melancholy present in the short story’s original text. This observation could be seen as a knock on the director’s approach, but for audiences going in with zero expectations beyond a good time, the interlaced humor feels like nothing more than playing to Cage’s unique strengths.
- 75The A.V. ClubKatie RifeThe A.V. ClubKatie RifeStanley does a remarkable job keeping the film grounded in emotional reality all things considered, but it’s admittedly an idiosyncratic movie about unconventional people made by an offbeat director.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungA satisfying shot at bringing a classic of the sci-fi/horror genre to modern audiences. ... Hitting the main plot points with well-designed SFX and some impressive night photography, Stanley's film manages to be frightening indeed, even with star Nicolas Cage’s semi-farcical leavening adding some nutty laughs.
- As untidy and un-profound as “Color” may be, Stanley swings for the fences, when almost any other director-in-exile would have tried to get back in Hollywood’s good graces with an act of penance. Score one for the eccentrics of the world.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe B-movie king is in rare form in Color Out of Space, a sci-fi thriller that might have been titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Magenta” had horror icon H.P. Lovecraft been born a lot later, and — you know — had a sense of humor.
- 60CineVueChristopher MachellCineVueChristopher MachellIf there is any real complaint to be levelled at Color Out of Space, it’s that it has more ideas than it knows what to do with.
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyEntertaining but uneven, the result is a deliberately over-the-top sci-fi horror exercise that loses some focus as the action grows more psychedelically unhinged — its oscillating tone not necessarily helped by Nicolas Cage growing likewise, in one of his less inspired gonzo-style performances.
- 58ConsequenceSarah KurchakConsequenceSarah KurchakWith its wacky space shit, off-kilter gore, creepy atmospherics, and hammy breakdown, most of which happen all at the same time, Colour Out of Space is, inarguably, one hell of a trip. It’s just not a trip that everyone is going to enjoy taking.