The result is an unmissable experience from a master film-maker.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

For over two hours one watched, spellbound, a story of two children enclosed in the memories and the experiences of their elders. But really it is the birth of the Ingmar Bergman cinema which one is watching.

| Oct 2, 2023

An incredible piece of a cinematic achievement.

| Mar 8, 2023

There is a real delicacy in [Bergman's] filming of festivities, first Christmas and later a double christening. The fun is effective, even contagious, but there is always worry in the air.

| Feb 8, 2023

Very much a filmmaker’s final statement, it’s bookended by blustery, farewell speeches from florid patriarchs to whom everybody’s only half-paying attention.

| Dec 21, 2022

A series of exquisitely written and often lavishly staged set pieces punctuated by the punishments of Alexander...

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

The Bergman of Fanny and Alexander is a quiet Bergman who gives us enjoyment by telling us a story, his story, on condition that one does not read into it too much that is personal as if it were nothing more than autobiographical.

| May 4, 2022

Bergman beautifully weighs life's questions against its joys and sorrows

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

I liked the performances for the most part. The children did a good job, especially later in the film when they had to deal with the difficult stepfather.

| Mar 26, 2021

The kind of movie that declares that it's explicit intention is to contain literally everything that cinema can be, and comes rather shockingly close to making good on that.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2021

[Fanny & Alexander] is Bergman's summing-up film; but in its mood of enchanted benevolence it represents a kind of release, as if Bergman and his demons had at last come to terms, agreed to let each other go.

| Feb 27, 2020

The central theme of the film is artistic creation and its relation to life. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 7, 2020

In "Fanny and Alexander," Ingmar Bergman has put the magic back into his lantern.

| Apr 27, 2018

It smiles at its characters' follies but cherishes their valor, and in their behalf it employs magic with the casual authority of Prospero himself.

| Feb 6, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

One of the filmmaker's most personal and finely detailed works.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2009

A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment.

| Dec 3, 2008

This premiere of the original cut, running at 312 minutes, leaves room for more than a story of one life.

| Dec 1, 2008

Sumptuous, haunting, and unusually tender... a nakedly psychological 'in' to [Bergman's] earliest artistic impulses; nothing else in his oeuvre addresses so directly his childhood escapes into fantasy as the by-product of a harsh Lutheran upbringing.

| Jan 8, 2008

During its three hours, seasons come and go, friends and relatives gather for funerals, weddings and christenings, and all human life is here.

| Aug 11, 2007