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Primer

What happens if it actually works?

2004 · 1h 17m · PG-13 Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by Shane Carruth

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Overview

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
72%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Mind-bending thrillers like Primer are terrific viewing with your teenagers. Maybe if you're nice, they'll explain the ending to you.

Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh

Scary, puzzling, and different.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

This film imagines its viewers to be smart, possessed of a decent attention span and game for a challenge. It doesn't happen all that often.

Jessica Winter, Time Out
Fresh

An unapologetically cerebral movie of ideas.

Leah McLaren, Globe and Mail
Rotten

It's one thing to admire what writer/director/composer/actor Shane Carruth wrought on his $1.98 digicam budget; it's quite another to have to sit through the mind-numbing results.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

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