Everyone needs to see this movie

Rating: Null/10 (12 July 2003)

In the bleak, stupid, and incredibly depressing landscape that is American popular culture, where garbage like "Seinfeld," "Charlie's Angels" and (God help us) "reality (?!) TV" are not merely economically viable but actually make money by the boatload, along comes a movie that requires your complete attention and is worth watching - really requires watching - more than once.

And what happened to this movie? I don't even remembering it being shown in theaters - do you? And none of the brilliant performances were nominated for Oscars, although that is to be expected, since now more than ever the Academy Awards are completely irrelevant to what is good and real and worth seeing.
No, it is left to movie dweebs like us to pass the word. Any movie worth watching is really two movies - the one you watch, and the one you live over in your mind. And any movie worth a damn continues to live with you after you see it. On this score, "Donnie Darko" succeeds like few other movies I have seen in the last ten years.
Everyone needs to see this movie.