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10/18/08
The Fall (2008)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:58
Rotten:39
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: More visually elaborate than the fragmented story can sometimes support, The Fall walks the line between labor of love and filmmaker self-indulgence.
Theatrical Release:May 9, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $2,099,067
Synopsis: Award-winning music video, commercial and film director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) creates a moving and seamless blending of mundane life in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital with a visually sumptuous... [More]
Reviews for The Fall
A bewitching movie, rich in ideas and humanity, and it reminds us that fiction is real to the one who imagines it. Adults might read with detachment, but kids know the truth: It matters who lives and who dies in a story. It matters for them, and for us.
05/30/08
[Despite some narrative problems], the visuals hold us rapt, as does Untaru's amazingly natural performance.
05/11/08
...plays like a fever dream of cinematic spectacle, offering a wide-screen parade of some of the most achingly beautiful and awe-inspiring cinematography ever to have been seen.
10/02/08
After four years of shooting and two years of sitting on the shelf, THE FALL is finally released. And it's worth the wait!
06/04/08
Rarely does a film employ the frame so fully and serve up images of such breathtaking scale as in The Fall.
06/08/08
The girl and the hospital patients and staff also turn up in his improvised adventure, extravagantly garbed by costume designer Eiko Ishioka.
12/17/08
The Fall is wholly beguiling, an utterly transportive piece of filmmaking as dazzling in its visual audacity as it is in its spartan simplicity.
05/09/08
The best movie of the year so far by a wide mile.
05/12/08
The Fall is aptly named not only because it pertains to a tragic descent but because viewers will feel as if they have plunged headlong into an alternate universe with this dazzling adult fairy tale.
05/09/08
The film wends its way into an interrogation of storytelling per se.
05/31/08
...a one-of-a-kind movie about the power of storytelling.
06/16/08
The Fall is hugely ambitious, but ultimately it's just an intriguing folly.
10/03/08
Once you've been away from 'The Fall' for 24 hours or so, you reflect on its sheer beauty.
06/03/08
It's rare to see such an unfiltered personal vision become a blindingly beautiful reality. The Fall is a true work of art and one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen.
05/08/08
The wackiness of this elaborate, not entirely tongue-in-cheek film, makes for wonder-filled moviegoing.
05/08/08
The scope of Tarsem's imagination and vision and the delightful pairing of Pace and Untaru creates an eclectic fantasy tale unlike anything we've since The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
05/09/08
It's such an exotic, fanciful story, so loony and imaginative and outre ... that the crazier it gets, the more intrigued I am.
06/04/08
As fantastic as the 'story' sequences in The Fall are, we are grounded by the fact that characters we believe in have created them, and they have happened right there in front of our eyes.
06/09/08
Gorgeous as it is, the film would be little more than a beautifully pointless exercise in style without the intensely believable performances.
05/08/08
Latest News for The Fall
December 08, 2008:
Roger Ebert Ranks 2008's 20 Best Films 
December isn't even halfway over yet, and many of us have already had our fill of year-end lists -- but Roger Ebert's list of the 20 best films of 2008 is one worth making an... More...
October 06, 2008:
Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 2
Its otherworldly story split critics down the middle, but none can argue with the power of its imagery. Continuing our exclusive look at the stunning visuals of Tarsem's The... More...
October 03, 2008:
Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 1
Its otherworldly story split critics down the middle, but none can argue with the power of its imagery. Opening in the UK this week, Tarsem's The Fall is one of the year's most... More...
October 03, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Does Just That; Whilst Brideshead Revisited Is Resisted
In the UK cinemas this week we have two literary adaptations with Simon Pegg as an irksome hack in How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited... More...
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