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Safe Reviews
Safe has a mildly-intriguing mystery on its surface, some psychological horror underneath, and a strong, breakout performance from star Julianne Moore, but sadly its premise is one that its writer/director doesn't really know what to do with.
Moore gives an understated but intense performance as the lead in this eco-illness drama that asks various questions, but ultimately leaves it up to viewers to come to their own conclusions.
Perhaps the most fascinating element of this film is the numerous ways it can be interpreted.
...a stirring story that’s elevated by its myriad of above-average attributes...
This uncommonly rigid movie is either bloodlessly objective or so subtly droll that the joke is beyond comprehension. But... it's tempting to give [Todd Haynes[ the benefit of the doubt.
The most chilling part of Safe is its ambiguous ending.
Todd Haynes’ Safe, led by a brilliant Julianne Moore, utilizes ambiguity and things left unsaid to become one of the most terrifying movies of the 1990s.
Todd Hayne's stellar pseudo-horror film is elevated even further by Julianne Moore's utterly heartbreaking performance.
Haynes' AIDS allegory is chilly, unsettling and confronting. Moore's quiet performance is exquisite and emotionally devastating; easily one of her best.
It's a familiar question that can be answered a thousand different ways, taking you down a thousand different paths. Carol could be any of us when put in the right situation.
In her first lead role, Julianne Moore delivers a dazzling performance as Carol White.
The surreal, detached nature of Safe puts it firmly in the horror genre, even while tackling urgent issues that haunt us all. Moore, as always, doesn't flinch. It's a movie and performance that will have you questioning everything.
It may very well be Haynes' most invigorating work precisely because of all the avenues of projection its fascinating obliqueness provides.
Haynes does to us what his film does to Carol, cannily exploiting our willingness to find answers where there are none, to read meaning into associations.
I found Safe's lack of answers both intriguing and frustrating.
Intended to be an exploration of the attitudes and anxiety surrounding the AIDS crisis, Safe still possesses the ability to leave viewers breathless and squirming in their seats.
One of the all-time great films. Screams out with existential terror showcasing how the lack of identity is not only anxiety-inducing but potentially inevitable due to the modern world we live in.
In many ways, 'Safe' predicts both the insular nature of contemporary society, and the (counter-intuitive) disease of conformity that's synonymous with it.
For all its disquiet, Safe is truly about the terror of losing control-or, even more frightening, being made aware of the fact that we never had control to begin with.
Safe is brilliant for the way Haynes, with cinematographer Alex Nepomniaschy and composer Ed Tomney, blankets the mundane in the eerie tone of science fiction and horror.