Its unpretentious plot makes for a diverting if inconsequential couple of hours.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2022

There are only so many ways you can film two actors in a single location, whatever the supposed altitude. But Frank maintains suspense with enough success to vindicate his reliance on old-school, non-digital techniques.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2022

While the pace falters a little – there are only so many ways you can almost fall off a tower, after all – the tension is unrelenting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2022

A white-knuckle disaster in the sky, Fall does exactly and only what it says on the tin. Do look down!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2022

Silly plot contrivances intrude and clutter up what should have been an 80-minute thrill ride.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

Mann crafts this ride like a horror movie, with enough jump scares, gory sights and twists that make you howl while hanging on to its every vertigo-inducing frame.

| Aug 12, 2022

I have no means for a vacation at the moment and nothing else left to give to this season, and Fall asks for so little that it feels like too much to demand something as basic as logic or characters in return.

| Aug 12, 2022

Some movies need to be original to work. Fall isn’t one of those movies, and it isn’t trying to be. It’s more satisfying for trying to hit the familiar beats with just a hint of nerve.

| Aug 12, 2022

The thin dialogue, showy cinematography, and overzealous edits betray the potential of this nightmare.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2022

“Fall” does what the best survival movies do, by carefully enumerating the resources the heroes have at their disposal so that we can enjoy watching them figure out how to deploy these pieces wisely — or wince as they waste chances.

| Aug 12, 2022

Lots of people pay good money to endure the kinds of thrill rides that make them wish they were back on solid ground. “Fall” does the same thing, but with the added benefit of being entirely vicarious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 11, 2022

Scott Mann milks that minimalist set-up for nearly two hours of death-defying thrills, and keeps finding new ways to engage the audience with his dizzying, vertigo-inducing high-wire (or high-platform) act.

| Original Score: B | Aug 11, 2022

“Fall” occasionally feels overrun with gimmicks and gotchas, but it also offers one hell of an adrenaline rush.

| Aug 11, 2022

Finds new ways to keep you clinging to the edge of your seat.

| Aug 11, 2022

This is not a good movie. But it is a movie that made me cry out, "Oh good god!" And that's something.

| Aug 10, 2022

A better-than-average B-movie corker that’s almost like a corrective these days to the behemoths that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on mayhem, only to bludgeon us with exhilaration-free, numbingly digitized peril.

| Aug 10, 2022

Fall is a crafty little movie that grips, and rarely lets go, for 100 or so minutes. It’s a welcome refreshment here in the badlands of August, when the search for excitement so often comes up short.

| Aug 10, 2022

I would say that Fall is best experienced on the biggest screen you can find – sky-high thrills, with a sky-high canvas and all that – but I fear that would only magnify its flaws.

| Aug 10, 2022

“Fall” is a technical feat of a thriller, yet it’s not without a human center. It earns your clenched gut and your white knuckles.

| Aug 10, 2022

Fall is the rare three-drinks-in “what if?” elevator pitch that somehow survived the journey to the big screen, made with unusual precision and punch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2022