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Primer

2004

Shane Carruth

David Sullivan, Shane Carruth, Casey Gooden, Carrie Crawford ...

6.1

30,043

Sci-Fi. Thriller Made with a small budget of 7,000 US dollars, “PRIMER" follows four suburbia inventors who by accident discover a mechanism with the ability to time-travel.

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Primer' is the kind of movie likely to inspire both imitators and cultists.(...) Carruth has invented something fascinating"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is maddening, fascinating and completely successful (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"'Primer' is undeniably geek heaven. For everyone else, it’s a nice antidote to big-budget bogusness."
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"[Carruth] can be forgiven for the project's structural weaknesses, but the engineer in him should know better. Any machine (or movie) that uses up more energy than it generates will eventually run out of steam"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Like its characters, this film is very, very ambitious and rather mad. Yet how much more interesting than the usual low-IQ product elsewhere. It's an exhilarating, disturbing and funny experience (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"An alluringly knotty indie that dramatizes scientific discovery so that the process looks arcane and sexy but also mundane and accessible."
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"Carruth creates a homemade wonder out of available materials (...) As a riddle, 'Primer' gains its seductive power by leaving the solution tantalizingly out of reach."
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"An impressive debut (...) This is scary, puzzling, and different."
		Matthew Leyland BBC	"'Primer' will either blow your mind or drive you out of it (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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