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Its drug-fueled portrayal of queer experience notwithstanding, My Own Private Idaho might be the perfect cinematic time capsule for ’90s aimlessness, universal in its details, itself something of a collection of artifacts and relics not unlike those referenced and relied on by its characters—souls in search of an identity, some of them simply lost without a clue… Keanu Reeves gives a turn of calculated introspection and distant coolness. Van Sant’s search for the self is expressed most fully through River Phoenix’s performance as a narcoleptic prostitute…-Slant Magazine