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Far from pursuing the boundary-less, quasi-metaphysical connections of Malick’s fluid images, Iñárritu uses Lubezki’s balletic camera work as a pictorial ornament to his bland theatrical stagings.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2016

Its self-consciousness becomes evident when characters appear to be speaking directly to viewers—most obviously in Rust’s quasi-metaphysical interrogations of chronological narrative.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2014

Albee preaches "resign yourself to the mysteries," but in this quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama he practices only mystification.

From Time Magazine Archive