
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.... (Full plot summary below)
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Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
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| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiKelly has unquestionably given us a bold and challenging work that is alive and kicking in every frame. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesThe brilliance of Southland Tales is inextricable from its flaws, if indeed they are flaws. |
| Boston PhoenixRob NelsonRichard Kelly's wildly ambitious and widely loathed Southland Tales now seems among the most believable works of film futurism ever made in this country. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderSomewhere beneath all the layers of idiocy are some good ideas -- if only Kelly knew how to express them. |
| Associated PressDavid GermainWith boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse. |
| Time OutMelissa AndersonSouthland Tales is one of the smartest, funniest, most audacious -- and most mournful -- films of the year. |
| Examiner.comChris SawinUnusual and extremely ambitious with an alternate reality that is entirely absorbing; Southland Tales is Richard Kelly's magnum opus that only a small few are able to recognize. Thankfully, those small few are pimps. And pimps don't commit suicide. |
| Stop SmilingMark AschAs in Kelly's previous film, Southland's flaws, and its scope, are magnificently earnest; the guy is in way over his head, but his flailing is extravagant. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyNot much improvement over the vfirst, severely flawed version. |
| Paste MagazineSean GandertAlthough it's by any reasonable means a flawed film, Southland Tales demands watching, if only for its cinematic achievements. |