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The Voices
2014 104 min Germany, United States of America R 18+
★6.4
Comedy, Crime, Horror, Fantasy
Director: Marjane Satrapi
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Description
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Budget:
$11M
Worldwide:
$2.24M
Starring
Ryan Reynolds
Actor
Gemma Arterton
Actor
Anna Kendrick
Actor
Awards
3 wins & 4 nominations total
Key opinion
The Voices is a polarizing black comedy that uses a unique, hallucinatory visual style to explore the fractured perspective of a man living with schizophrenia. While Ryan Reynolds’ sympathetic and complex performance is widely praised, audiences are sharply divided over whether the film successfully balances its tonal shifts between lighthearted absurdity and brutal psychological horror.
| Acting | Ryan Reynolds delivers a compelling and surprisingly nuanced performance that anchors the film's difficult subject matter. | |
| Production | The production design effectively visualizes the protagonist’s mental state by contrasting his vibrant, idealized hallucinations with the bleak reality of his medicated life. | |
| Originality | The film’s attempt to blend dark humor, slasher tropes, and psychological drama results in a disjointed experience that some find refreshingly original and others find incoherent. | |
| Pacing | The pacing is inconsistent, with some viewers finding the narrative rhythm engaging while others feel it lags or becomes tiresome as the story progresses. | |
| Ending | The ending is highly polarizing, with many finding the final tonal shifts and musical sequence to be jarring, illogical, or outright jarringly ineffective. | |
| Humor | The film struggles to find a consistent comedic voice, leading to a split between those who appreciate its dark, cynical satire and those who find the intended humor to be missing entirely. |