Critics reviews

Put simply, to be noir a film must delve into the psychology, the interiority, of its characters; it must peer into what Wilfred Thesiger (in the seminal 1939 British noir They Drive By Night) calls "the crepuscular recesses of the human mind." The psychological complexity, dense ambiguity, and intense, tortured emotion of Brainstorm are precisely the elements that drained out of crime movies at the beginning of the 1960s, with the turn to cool, amoral detachment.