77
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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerThis trippy work maps the intersections of West and East, body and spirit, faith and terror with beguiling grace.
- 80The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyThe hallucinatory power of ayahuasca and the incantatory lure of rituals fuse with existential dread in this darkly hypnotic drama.
- 80The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerYou may find this sparse film maddeningly elusive, but chances are you’ll come out of it with your head spinning, in a good way.
- 80CineVueMaximilian Von ThunCineVueMaximilian Von ThunSidestepping the question of whether or not shamanic methods 'work' in a scientific sense, Caraballo and Norzi directly depict the psychedelic experience of Ayahuasca itself by seamlessly blending dream and reality into a single stunning whole.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeCalling itself a "vision" as opposed to a "film," Icaros attempts to conquer fear — of death, of blindness, of loss — by accepting the potency of a magic it knows it will never understand.
- 80Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIcaros is a mini-epic of serene, intelligent mind-body wooziness.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film has a calming and inevitable quality, and a leisurely sense of pacing that favors image and sound over narrative propulsion, that slows our own biorhythms, fostering our sensorial empathy with the passengers.
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlOnce in a while a narrator relates facts about the forest; occasional CGI flourishes don’t disappoint so much as they remind us of the challenges of summoning to the screen what the brain simply creates. Icaros comes closer than most movies manage.