Difficult to describe, but worth discovering.

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2002)

Donnie Darko is nearly impossible to explain or categorize, but most great films are this way. Even the style is difficult to describe, but the creative credits could read like this: Story by Rod Serling, Screenplay by John Hughes, Produced by Terry Gilliam, and Directed by Tim Burton. Donnie Darko is alternately frightening, hilarious, touching, and disturbing. If you are a true film fan, it will exhilarate you the way that Pulp Fiction, Boogie Nights, Memento, and much of Spielberg's early work has done. While watching it, I could not shake the feeling that I was watching a new, great talent; a feeling I felt when I first saw the work of Shyamalan, Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, Christopher Nolan, and Robert Rodriguez. Do yourself a favor and make it appointment viewing.