High-Rise
A doctor (Tom Hiddleston) moves into a London skyscraper where rising tensions and class warfare lead to anarchy. The life for the residents of that tower block begins to run out of control.
16 March 1975, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK
19 September 1948, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
1952, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK
3 June 1964, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
5 November 1993, Leamington, Warwickshire, England, UK
27 August 1969, Hull, England, UK
3 June 1945, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
10 February 1976, London, England, UK
4 August 1969, London, England, UK
February 18, 2017
High-Rise's rushed, unfocused narrative renders this more an admirable failure than a subversive cult classic in waiting.
May 18, 2016
No matter how much one shades the characters, though, High-Rise defies adaptation because the most vivid character is the building itself.
May 13, 2016
I soon found myself wanting to wash off the modernist stench of Wheatley's world. And yet it's entrancing all the same, so much so that like Laing and his fellows, I had no desire to leave the high-rise.
January 15, 2017
This dystopian, apocalyptic tale of the downfall of civilization is set in a high rise apartment building. This can be viewed as a very dark comedy about how quickly society can break down, and how much fun that could be.
March 21, 2017
High-Rise is just about the looniest garbage I have seen in a long while.
May 20, 2016
High-Rise switches genres effortlessly - black humour one moment, dystopic parable the next - until it becomes its own singular, horrifying, immensely captivating thing.
May 18, 2016
There is a goldmine of rich material here, all beautifully shot, but fatally lacking in focus or momentum.
March 16, 2017
It may be Wheatley's least accessible film to date - and also his best.
December 31, 2016
Incoherent, pretentious and painfully self-indulgent.
May 13, 2016
Director Ben Wheatley ("Kill List") is masterful with arresting imagery set in a dystopian spin on the '70s; less so with a compelling narrative.
December 31, 2016
It's one of those works of futurism that seems simultaneously very prescient in its time, and slightly dated in ours. It underscores its points with a yellow highlighter.
May 18, 2016
It could take decades for critics and audiences to appreciate whatever genius lurks behind the chaos, but for the time being, it seems like little more than madness.
