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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it. Read full review

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Dazzling and delirious, The Fall is a celebration of cinema, of old-fashioned storytelling and globe-hopping spectacle. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    The Fall is often an affectionate caricature itself, but one of astonishing beauty, featuring two heartfelt performances from Untaru and the tender, often mordantly funny Pace. They're perfect foils for Tarsem's gorgeous tone poem to cinema as a medium of magic and miracles, stories and lies. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    It's an achingly beautiful movie and a triumph of location scouting, with more cosmopolitan spectacle than the past three Indiana Jones and James Bond movies combined. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    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. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    The Fall is what you'd get if you told a fiendishly gifted graphic illustrator the plot of "The Princess Bride" and sent him off to come up with his own version. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    This convoluted, arbitrary, overlong whimsy will strike most grown-ups as childish, and is far too violent and pretentious for kids. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Tarsem and his screenwriting collaborators aren't able to come up with enough interesting justifications for their sudden shifts, and soon the shape-shifting yarn just feels like lazy storytelling. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    There is never a sense that The Fall exists for any reason besides simply being something nice to look at. Yet no matter how good-looking a film may be, if it's as sleep-inducing as this, there's simply no point. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Nathan Lee

    A genuine labor of love -- and a real bore. Read full review

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