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      • On the whole, High-Rise hits more often than it misses. It’s a playfully demented and dry evisceration of the tenuous hold that modern western civilization has on civility, walking a fine line between the best genre horror and the loftiest of intellectual indie cinema.
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  2. May 13, 2016 · The story of a seemingly inexplicable breakdown of social order within an apartment building outside London that’s been designed to approximate a community, “High-Rise” was a speculative fiction very much of the time when it was written.

  3. Apr 28, 2016 · The retro cars, suits, and architecture all put High-Rise more in a quaint, remote past than a dystopian future. They also add to the sense of otherworldliness that hangs over the film.

  4. High-Rise is brutally brilliant. JG Ballard’s dystopian classic High-Rise is given a sexually charged, gloriously gory refurbishment in Ben Wheatley’s captivating new film…. By Ailis...

  5. High-Rise is a 2015 British dystopian thriller film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Amy Jump, based on the 1975 novel of the same name by J. G. Ballard. [4] The film stars Tom Hiddleston , Jeremy Irons , Sienna Miller , Luke Evans , and Elisabeth Moss .

  6. May 12, 2016 · “High-Rise” is rated R (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Old-fashioned end-of-the world sex, drugs and mayhem. Running time: 1 hour 59 minutes.

    • Ben Wheatley
    • 55 sec
  7. Aug 22, 2023 · If he grew up embracing the folklore of 1970s Britain, the choice to make High-Rise suggests a fascination with the symbolism, politics and visual architecture of a period known for British social and economic decay.

  8. Mar 17, 2016 · In High-Rise the fitfully brilliant Briton Ben Wheatley ( Kill List, A Field in England ), with writing partner Amy Jump, seizes what seems a perfect-fitting text — JG Ballard’s dystopian novel...

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