Editing Powder (1995) (section)

==Reception==
''Powder'' received generally mixed reviews from critics. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] it has a rating of 50% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "''Powder'' has some interesting and potentially affecting ideas, but they're ultimately dust in the wind of a drama that strains far too obviously for uplift."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/powder/|title = Powder|website = [[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref>

Caryn James of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the film as "lethally dull" with Goldblum's dry humor offering the only tolerable moments in the film. "This intensely self-important film has no idea how absurd and unconvincing it is."<ref>{{cite news|last=James|first=Caryn|title=Powder (1995)|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9900EFDE1F39F934A15753C1A963958260|access-date=May 15, 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 27, 1995}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] gave the film two stars out of a possible four. He criticized numerous [[plot holes]] and asserted that Flanery's makeup made him resemble a [[mime]] more than an albino. He wrote: "'Powder' has all of the elements of a successful fantasy, and none of the insights. It's a movie where intriguing ideas lie there on the screen, jumbled and unrealized. It leads up to [[bathos]], not [[pathos]], because not enough attention was paid to the underlying truth of the characters. They're all just pawns for the plot gimmicks."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/powder-1995|title=Powder Movie Review & Film Summary (1995) - Roger Ebert|first=Roger|last=Ebert|website=www.rogerebert.com}}</ref>