Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival a few months ago, Primer writer-director Shane Carruth delivered another divisive work of science-fiction with the mesmerizing Upstream Color. Having recently ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

You may not want to know anything about Shane Carruth‘s “Upstream Color,” which opens in several theaters this week, because much of its appeal is derived from being thoroughly consumed by its ...

Filmmaker Shane Carruth’s micro-budget breakthrough “Primer” was a dense, realistic time travel drama of the sort nobody had seen before. Judging by his long-awaited second feature, “Upstream Color,” ...

As mystifying as his 2004 sci-fier, "Primer," albeit for entirely different reasons, Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color" is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking. At the center of ...

Let your mind wander... After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the second film from Primer director Shane Carruth, an abstract drug drama titled Upstream Color, will be hitting ...

Upstream Color, the new film written by, directed by, scored by, starring, sliced and diced by, shaken and stirred by, danced by, implanted by, effed-up by, and birthed by Shane Carruth is… well, wait ...

Shane Carruth hasn’t made a movie since his debut, 2004’s critically acclaimed time-bending Primer, but it wasn't for lack of trying: According to producer Casey Gooden, the filmmaker devoted a lot of ...

Carruth and co-editor David Lowery don’t construct Upstream Color in the way of a typical Hollywood film. There is no such thing as a scene or an act in Upstream Color. The film is very much a kind of ...

We aren't going to pretend we can pin down the meaning of every last thing that happens in writer-director-star Shane Carruth's breathtaking new movie, Upstream Color. Anybody who claims otherwise is ...

Both Oblivion and Upstream Color are successful at their very different aims, even though neither does the job of great science fiction. What science fiction does best—and I mean real, ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...