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"Southland Tales" writer-director Richard Kelly set out to tell a grand comic adventure about an apocalypse close at hand. With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse.
Irksomely self-important, deliberately cryptic and cluttered, "Southland Tales" may strain the patience even of the cult crowd that embraced Kelly’s first film, "Donnie Darko," a cinematic riddle that looks positively mainstream next to this fiasco. (...)