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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesFrom the sun’s surface to the deep earth, Hawaiian volcanoes to Detroit’s decay, Mettler explores the different ways that we experience and define time, using his own documentary as a mind-bending demonstration of its mutability.
- 70The New York TimesMiriam BaleThe New York TimesMiriam Bale[Mr. Mettler’s] images of galaxies, mandalas, particle accelerators and glowing red lava become his real subjects. He uses music and sound to control the pace, to slow time, as if cinema were a form of enforced meditation.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonAny sense of narrative momentum or intellectual focus quickly unravels as the film evolves into an almost wordless symphony of disconnected images, sounds and music. But the nature-heavy montages are mostly beautiful and bizarre enough to excuse the film’s pretentious excesses.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayMettler is in no hurry to get to any particular point in The End Of Time. The film leaps from subject to subject—slowly, and somewhat haphazardly.
- 50Village VoiceCalum MarshVillage VoiceCalum MarshThe awe incited by the world is enough — no pontificating necessary, man.
- 40VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergIntermittently interesting but more often pretentious, this sluggish exploration of time as real and conceived concepts rarely does more than regurgitate philosophical platitudes without locating the depth to make them interesting.