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OBEX Reviews
Despite its obvious lack of substance, it's a highly commendable entry in the genre. [Full review in Spanish]
Writing "it's Eraserhead does The Hobbit" was definitely not on my bingo card for this or any year.
Like other great coming-of-age stories, Obex is as scary as it is comforting. It treats its audience with great care, even when it refuses easy answers.
Unnerving in its audiovisual presentation, but clearly made with love, Obex is a cult classic in the making.
There is a stronger emphasis on character and mood-setting than plot and spectacle, which might test less patient viewers... Stick with the sci-fi, however, as the second half of the film is a visual marvel.
The film delights in its own low-rent stylings, the special effects haunting for being less slickly rendered. Ixaloth the demon reminds me of a few computer game villains of my youth that gave me nightmares.
An inventive cautionary tale about the dangers of losing oneself in technology... Birney’s film feels like a love letter to the lo-fi debuts of David Lynch and Darren Aronofsky
If you’re looking for a witty and heartfelt story with characters you can care about, you may find yourself falling head over heels.
There may be something here for fans of handmade craft – or for viewers who've run out of David Lynch films or pirated NES ROMs on their PCs.
Its gentleness and incremental increases in weirdness are a feature, not a bug.
[Albert} Birney’s use of black and white photography adds to the 80s nostalgia carefully crafted here, He also makes me glad that I never caught the gaming bug.
“Obex” also reminds us that the power to be positively emboldened by tech — rather than imprisoned by it — always will be in humans’ hands, so long as we remember that we always can unplug.
Balancing a clear appreciation for nostalgia and fantasy with an imaginative critique of escapism takes a nimble hand, and Birney is more than up to the task.
As absurd as it all is, we sense that Birney means every word of it.
Birney’s gritty, imaginative filmmaking results in a compelling fantasy that leaves us nowhere to hide . . . from ourselves.
Those who enjoy the corner of cinema Lynch has carved out will appreciate that OBEX does its best to fill in the space he has left behind.
It is a course that regrettably shrinks the contagious wonder the premise of this daring jaunt could have generated.
Like Strawberry Mansion before it, OBEX is a cinematic adventure with substantial charm in spite—or perhaps because—of its imperfections.
An earnest, strange, and delightful adventure. It contains classic 1980s fantasy, science fiction, and horror tropes.
The film is inherently a litmus test, ostracizing those unwilling to be dragged through the current Birney hopes audiences will willingly ride along.