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Read from 37 comments (35 from Metacritic, 2 from TMDB reviews) — 9 of them described how it moves.
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“an almost nonstop dialogue track running from start to finish”
drqshadow · Metacritic ↗
“I have never felt in my life confused about watching a movie”
infraRecon · Metacritic ↗
“making it impossible to understand the first times you watch it”
miguevindiano · Metacritic ↗
“it somehow comes across as kinda boring. Progression seems to take a long time.”
KleverViper · Metacritic ↗
“three and a half hour long movies that I've been able to get to the end less excruciating than 'Primer.'”
FranzHcritic · Metacritic ↗
“I could not, for the love of life, understand what was being talked about in the first 20 mins of this movie.”
Ozy · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 69% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“Primer unites physics and metaphysics in an ingenious guerrilla reinvention of cinematic science fiction.”
Dennis Lim, Village Voice · 100
“Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie chat rooms, significant indie-cred applications, IMHO. Oh, and :-).”
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly · 91
“A half-baked conspiracy subplot in the last third makes Carruth's knotty narrative even harder to follow, but this is still scary, puzzling, and different.”
J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader · 90
“Refusing to dumb down for a mass market, Primer is "Mullholland Dr." for math geeks, "Memento" for mad geniuses, or simply one of the most inventive films ever made for pennies on the Hollywood dollar.”
Aaron Hillis, Premiere · 88
“An ingenious blend of sci-fi and mystery.”
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer · 88
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“an almost nonstop dialogue track running from start to finish”
drqshadowabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“I have never felt in my life confused about watching a movie”
infraReconabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“making it impossible to understand the first times you watch it”
miguevindianoabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“it somehow comes across as kinda boring. Progression seems to take a long time.”
KleverViperabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“This has quite a clever concept - a group of four engineering friends are building a prototype piece of equipment. "Abe" (David Sullivan) discovers - accidentally - when testing it, that is has positively game-changing potential and confides his secret in his colleague "Aaron" (Shane Carruth). Rather than share this invention between the group, the two decide to relocate their gadget and use it to exploit the stock markets and make themselves rich. It demonstrates quite well, the conflicting val”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
“Brilliant concept, yet so-so execution which would have been helped by a higher budget. However, this is a brilliant attempt at creating a time travel film with next to no money. While the film has its faults, the performances and dialogue are great and I love that it doesn’t expect its audience to be dumb; by the way, when I say that… I mean it. This is maybe the most confusing film of all time.”
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