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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnDrawing on interviews with 10 experts and internet theorists with an endearing mashup of film clips and trippy 3-D animation, A Glitch in the Matrix adapts to the internal logic of its echo chamber until starts to sound pretty convincing on its own terms. If you’re not already one of the diehards convinced we’re living in a simulation, this movie might actually get you there.
- 83The PlaylistChris BarsantiThe PlaylistChris BarsantiAscher’s appropriately discombobulating stew of queasiness, comedy, and terror seems well-cued to the subject matter, even while missing a certain editorial sharpness that might have brought some of its notions into greater clarity.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThough it leaves some avenues underexplored and gives a bit too much attention to the sci-fi landmark name-checked in its title, the film makes for engrossing, sometimes unsettling viewing.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenRodney Ascher is a sly master of mining potentially jokey or gimmicky subjects for the alienation they primordially express.
- 70IGNKristy PuchkoIGNKristy PuchkoA Glitch In The Matrix is a solid sibling to Room 237 and The Nightmare. Once more, Ascher offers an empathetic space to conspiracy theorists and dreamers, creating a superb setting for honesty, earnestness, and vulnerability. Employing keen editing, he illustrates their arguments with pop culture references and panache. However, he also offers the shadow of a doubt, allowing the viewer a safe space to question.
- 67The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdA Glitch In The Matrix unfolds as a flood of exposition and conjecture, accompanied by a gaudy infotainment montage of video-game footage, movie excerpts, and computer-animated recreations.
- 65TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanAscher leaves us pondering the costs of dissociation, but also its seductive appeal. Is it really that outlandish to look around occasionally, and wonder at the surreality of it all?
- 65The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzIt is a lot, and Ascher only has so many stylistic tricks up his sleeve – including a unique, if eventually exhausting, spin on talking-head Zoom footage – to delay the sheer weight of his subject matter from crushing his film into multiverse-ready dust.
- 40SlashfilmBen PearsonSlashfilmBen PearsonA Glitch in the Matrix is more than just a conspiracy theory movie: it’s about how we function in a societal system, how we interact with other people, and what happens when we embrace a worldview which seemingly offers answers to things in life that don’t make sense to us. But the movie stumbles over its muddled execution of some of those ideas, and as a result, can’t help but feel like a letdown.