Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

When you see as many films as I do, you often have preconceptions...Then out of nowhere, something comes along that reinvigorates your passion as both a viewer and a critic. This is my drug...This is Requiem For A Dream.

It may be too much for some viewers to take, but no one ever said addiction is pretty. And Aronofsky earns every right to his excesses by making sure audiences feel the loss of humanity instead of treating them like spectators at a freak show.

Clearly influenced by the cut-and-paste of hip-hop, Requiem stokes and builds its tragic momentum like an expertly mixed dance cut, the kind that catches you so seductively in its rhythms you'll follow it anywhere...

As a story, this long, bleak descent into consumer hell doesn't sound like it would be much fun to watch as a movie. But there is something undeniably engrossing about Requiem for a Dream and it's a direct result of Darren Aronofsky's direction.