Though their quarry eventually appears to be a model of paranoia and prejudice, it's the thrill of the hunt that keeps Resurrect Dead compelling.
80
Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos
Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos
What Foy and his team discover is unbelievable. More importantly, their adventures will prove popular with street art buffs as well as documentary fans.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The film is confoundingly watchable.
70
Village Voice
Village Voice
Resurrect Dead works splendidly as a threadbare urban mystery, teasing out details and complications without withholding too much information.
It's a ride worth more for its journey than its destination. Resurrect Dead does offer a convincing but anticlimactic "solution" to the Toynbee tiles, but the elements along the way are what make it an engaging film.
50
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon Lanthier
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon Lanthier
The testimony we hear from suspects' neighbors and similarly curious media underlings feels muted, like a halfhearted repetition.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Proves too anticlimactic for the audience to maintain interest.
Documentarian Jon Foy spent a decade following both the phenomenon and those who've tried cracking the code, and while his film offers little in the way of answers, it says volumes about delusional obsessives.
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Without a satisfying resolution, the movie ultimately sheds very little light on its own subject.
The real mystery is this: Even if you find this guerrilla art project utterly fascinating, why would anyone bother to release an incomplete film about it?