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04/23/09
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
It doesn't make a bit of sense. And after a while, even pretty images become boring when there's nobody in them we care about.
05/30/08
The Fall remains remote and unengaging.
05/07/08
If Matthew Barney and Alejandro Jodorowsky were in change of filming a Gay Pride parade, it would be similar to what Fall has to offer visually...As a living, breathing creation, it's dead on arrival.
05/21/08
With unbelievable and unsympathetic characters, all that's left in The Fall is the visuals.
05/30/08
It looks spectacular, but a book of The Fall photographs would be just as compelling as the movie.
05/30/08
This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic.
05/09/08
Top CriticWhile nice to look at, it’s also a very tedious slice of magical realism lacking in tension, suspense and, indeed, magic.
10/03/08
...plagued by unreasonably amateurish performances and lackluster scripting.
09/21/06
This convoluted, arbitrary, overlong whimsy will strike most grown-ups as childish, and is far too violent and pretentious for kids.
09/19/06
Top CriticThe film may look a treat in a static kind of way but the whole is a piece of turgid pictorialism that ends up unbearably dull.
10/03/08
Singh's aesthetic is like a pungent flavor or a fragrance that lingers in the film's Escher-like folds, overwhelming logical narrative and emotional clarity.
05/30/08
Shunning logic and compassion, The Fall is a bedtime story impeccably designed to flatter its own maker.
05/04/08
A long, long trip through the museum
08/26/09
A fairy-tale that's fractured in ways that seem perversely calculated to alienate us even as it tries to draw us in...a cinematic pratfall.
05/28/08
Visually sumptuous but marred by a fragmented tale.
04/29/08
Sometimes, looking good isn't enough.
05/30/08
Top CriticThere's a decent little movie lurking somewhere deep inside this visual panoply that positively chokes on its own symbolism.
05/30/08
A rather messy mix of fantasy, goofy humor and visually arresting, sometimes distracting costume and set designs.
05/29/08
May not do much for its director's resume, but it certainly must have filled out his passport.
06/17/08
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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