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Relaxer
2019 1h 31m Not Rated
Fantasy
,
Comedy
,
Horror
6.0
68%
53%
58%
Play
With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.
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Directed By
Joel Potrykus
Written By
Joel Potrykus
Studio
Oscilloscope
Cast of Relaxer
Joshua Burge
Abbie
David Dastmalchian
Cam
Andre Hyland
Dallas
Adina Howard
Arin
Amari Cheatom
Cortez
Mahfuz Rahman
Janitor Jim
Madigan Bachman
Janitor Mal
Jeen Na
Joao
Relaxer Reviews
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
What's impressive is that, though it doesn't always achieve its aims, the film never gets dull despite the fact that we spend all of it watching a man on a couch.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
Relaxer forces viewers to engage with its off-kilter frequency, and risks pushing the material too far with a final time jump.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
For a movie that's often embarrassingly funny-with its absurdist hangout dialogue, posturing nobodies, and perfectly timed spews-Relaxer is fundamentally sad.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
I can't honestly recommend Relaxer to most readers, but if you like this kind of thing, you'll probably love it.
High on Films
Shikhar Verma
Relaxer is a sickening, strangely funny takedown of the capitalistic system that's taking over the world.
Spectrum Culture
Pat Padua
As if Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett were fed a diet of Nintendo and pizza.
Big Easy Magazine
Bill Arceneaux
It's endearing, hilarious, and disgusting all at once, before a whiff of a finale that's bold and cosmic.
Gayly Dreadful
Terry Mesnard
Is it possible for a movie to smell bad? Because Relaxer stinks. And I don't mean it pejoratively. The stench oozes from the sweaty pores of the man-child protagonist.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
Joel Potrykus's droll world is defined by feats of man-child pettiness, by lazy guys who turn the banalities of daily life into meaningless trials of integrity.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Potrykus found innumerable ways to render cinematic the film's single location, a grungy Michigan apartment where a childlike slacker spends months trying to reach the fabled 257th level of Pac-Man.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Some may find this movie unbearable; yet there's a place for pictures that push us to the limits of forbearance. Sometimes, even the loathsome have stories worth telling.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
Through its precise filmmaking and whirlwind script about one loser who never gets off the couch, it's a magnetic, five-senses experience for slacker cinema.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
Wildly, happily unique.
Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
The presumed message - get off the couch and live for yourselves, young Americans! - might be a little more persuasive if our onscreen stand-in were not so revolting.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
The endurance of moviegoers will no doubt be tested as much as that of the protagonist, whose hopeless predicament spirals into surreal madness.
FanboyNation.com
Sean Mulvihill
Joel Potrykus has created a film that is bizarre, grotesque, and defiant but maintains a pace that keeps the unusual events always oddly hilarious and captivating.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
I have a feeling that Relaxer is the kind of movie you're supposed to watch while wasted. Watching it sober is an endurance test.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
A Midnight Movie-style brain bleeder that still retains a sense of humor. It's no improvement on "Buzzard," but there's a clear escalation of directorial bravery that's interesting to watch unfold.
Film Pulse
Adam Patterson
Director Joel Potrykus always seemed to have a penchant for foul man-children, but Relaxer is his magnum opus of slackerdom.
Jaredmobarak.com
Jared Mobarak
We get eighty-minutes of empty promises before ten-minutes of off-the-wall live wire insanity fulfill what we were conditioned to accept wouldn't come. Too little, too late.
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