doesn't get any better

Rating: 9/10 (20 November 2001)

it's nearly the end of 2001, and 'Reqiuem for a Dream' is still, as far as i am concerned, unchallenged as being the best so far in the 21st century. See it for a second or third time, it just gets more hypnotic as the delusion of its characters becomes evident in every second of action, visuals and dialogue.
Punishingly and brilliantly effective; the closest anyone has come to beating Taxi Driver in its creation of a wholesale psychological framework of dreams, paranoia, and a self-inflicted hell on earth.