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Filled with stunning imagery, The Man Who Fell to Earth is a calm, meditative film that profoundly explores our culture's values and desires.
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All Critics (62) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (11)
The real story is less about the sci-fi and more about the weirdness on Earth, a woozy dream of greed and alcohol and betrayal, as the gentle Newton is preyed upon by hucksters and the American government. September 9, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The real story is less about the sci-fi and more about the weirdness on Earth, a woozy dream of greed and alcohol and betrayal, as the gentle Newton is preyed upon by hucksters and the American government.
Kate Muir
A freaky, compelling concept album of a film. September 8, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A freaky, compelling concept album of a film.
Peter Bradshaw
There are moments here that approach the sublime. September 5, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There are moments here that approach the sublime.
Tom Huddleston
Roeg's exuberance and invention are compromised here by a yarn that carries dank traces of Twilight Zone. January 13, 2016 | Full Review…
Roeg's exuberance and invention are compromised here by a yarn that carries dank traces of Twilight Zone.
Jay Cocks
One has to say this for The Man Who Fell to Earth: such a bold, imaginative work would never get made in today's fettered, cautious film industry, either here or in America. Roeg's work may have its faults - but its ambition is beyond reproach. January 13, 2016 | Full Review…
One has to say this for The Man Who Fell to Earth: such a bold, imaginative work would never get made in today's fettered, cautious film industry, either here or in America. Roeg's work may have its faults - but its ambition is beyond reproach.
David Gritten
Iconic, and nearly canonic. June 15, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Iconic, and nearly canonic.
Phil Hoad
Virtually every aspect of David Bowie's gender-bending Ziggy Stardust persona acquires heightened significance as he plays an alien from a water-depleted planet desperate to save his dying species. June 10, 2020 | Full Review…
Virtually every aspect of David Bowie's gender-bending Ziggy Stardust persona acquires heightened significance as he plays an alien from a water-depleted planet desperate to save his dying species.
David Lamble
Directed by Nicholas Roeg, it is a needlessly symbolic, over-intelligent production that is just too complicated and esoteric to be easily digested. May 26, 2020 | Full Review…
Directed by Nicholas Roeg, it is a needlessly symbolic, over-intelligent production that is just too complicated and esoteric to be easily digested.
David A. Nardozzi
What must be applauded in The Man Who Fell to F.arth is the visual imagination of Nicholas Roeg and his uncompromising vision. October 31, 2019 | Full Review…
What must be applauded in The Man Who Fell to F.arth is the visual imagination of Nicholas Roeg and his uncompromising vision.
Jacoba Atlas
Above all, it is the ineffable, broken sadness of the haunted alien at its center that registers most powerfully. July 18, 2019 | Full Review…
Above all, it is the ineffable, broken sadness of the haunted alien at its center that registers most powerfully.
Sean Burns
It is a film that manages to be its own entity while honoring the book it came from entirely. January 14, 2019 | Full Review…
It is a film that manages to be its own entity while honoring the book it came from entirely.
Emily Asher-Perrin
Whether they're in love or arguing, their interactions are never over-the-top, retaining a natural feel helped in no small part by Stoller's witty script. January 10, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Whether they're in love or arguing, their interactions are never over-the-top, retaining a natural feel helped in no small part by Stoller's witty script.
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