Synopsis
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.
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Cast
- Andrew GarfieldSam
- Riley KeoughSarah
- Topher GraceBar Buddy
- Callie HernandezMillicent Sevence
- Don McManusFinal Man
- Jeremy BobbSongwriter
- Riki LindhomeActress
- Patrick FischlerComic Fan
- Zosia MametTroy
- Jimmi SimpsonAllen
Recommendations
- 100
Time Out
The ambition of Under the Silver Lake is worth cherishing. It will either evaporate into nothingness or cohere into something you’ll want to hug for being so wonderfully weird. - 83
The Film Stage
The plot’s construction might be derivative, but its serpentine execution is flawless, providing enough crazy turns and zany characters to sustain an escalating momentum for Silver Lake‘s nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime. - 83
IndieWire
It’s fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist. - 80
Screen Daily
If the destination ultimately proves a little less satisfying than the trip, Mitchell and his collaborators fill us with so many moody reveries that we succumb to its warped logic and indelible vividness. - 75
The A.V. Club
The pervasive but almost offhand menace is supplied by Mitchell’s impeccable, widescreen mise-en-scène; the ordinary dread he locates in an unglamorous, mundane L.A.; and the way even the film’s comedy seems perched on the edge of unease. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Like any conspiracy theorist, you sense that landing on an actually airtight unified theory would almost spoil the fun for Mitchell. - 60
Variety
Under the Silver Lake gets its hooks in you, but it’s a good-bad movie: an academic stab at making the darkness visible. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite a compelling lead in Andrew Garfield, the tension dissipates rather than mounts as this knotty neo-noir slides into a Lynchian swamp of outre weirdness.
