| Critics
Reviews |
Average
Grade: |
C+ |
|
|
Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Bob Townsend |
"...metaphysical mess."
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D |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"Does the movie
work? Hardly, and yet the thing's alive with
the urgency of its emotions."
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B- |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"It's an
incredibly ambitious film of sometimes
thrilling visual achievement, but it didn't
connect fully to my mind and nerves."
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B- |
E! Online
Dezhda Mountz |
"Advance word
of mouth sold The Fountain as a
dense, pompous, plodding existential muddle.
And it is."
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C |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"The rest of
the movie is a meditation on loss, grief,
science, and 'closure,' more of a sci-fi
think piece than the grand adventure you
might be hoping for."
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B- |
New York
Post
Kyle Smith |
"...visually
stunning..."
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B- |
New York
Times
A.O. Scott |
"...tries to
replace the prose of narrative cinema with a
poetic language of rhyming images and visual
metaphors. I wish I could say that it
succeeded."
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C |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The overall
experience fails to satisfy on a basic
level. This is one of those films it's
easier to be impressed with than it is to
like."
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B- |
RogerEbert.com
Jim Emerson |
"...springs
from a passion to take risks..."
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B |
Rolling
Stone
Peter Travers |
"...a risk
worth taking."
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B- |
San
Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...despite
writer-director Darren Aronofsky's noble
goal to do something startlingly original on
an epic scale, he's come up with a script
that isn't particularly fresh..."
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D+ |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...while the
film is intriguing as it's transpiring, it
has very little impact."
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B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...overflows
with pretensions and absurdity."
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C- |
