Freaky Tales

It's charming to see Boden and Fleck find a less mechanical, less programmatic way to have fun.

Clearly, the cast had a great time. But for us, there’s a sense by then that maybe you sorta had to be there.

There's a lot going on in this anthology film. The directors find joy in moments that might otherwise read as brutal.

The movie's shaggy and very much not to everyone's taste, but if you find yourself on its wavelength, I think you'll have a really good time with it.

It’s a midnight movie with clean fingernails — a nostalgia tour where, for all the on-screen blood, no one actually gets hurt, least of all the audience.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s “Freaky Tales” is a nostalgic homage to the music, movies and personalities of the 1980s.

You don't have to be from the Bay Area to appreciate the Oakland-set Freaky Tales, but it probably helps one forgive some of the film's shortcomings.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have a stylish film on their hands. They mix real life figures with fictional characters, established actors next to first-time performers. Their take on freaky is not so much scary, but rather, coincidental and wacky in nature.

This PULP FICTION like anthology, violence included has great casting, stories (most based on truth) and a perfect surprise cameo. The jazz of the film is its underlying thesis, that to overcome obstacles & bigotry the confidence of your truth prevails.

A mixed bag of nostalgia and violence that works in some chapters and not so well in others.