Surviving 139 minutes of this barrage of profuse but elusive imagery and sound is something of an ordeal.

| Jul 6, 2018

Sokurov's [Faust] has a distinctly human scale, yet he flattens the tale's meaning.

| Apr 12, 2018

A grueling side show of a film, a morbid, mightily uninvolving piece ...

| Nov 21, 2013

Compared to many Sokurov films, this one has an enlivening paradoxicality: it's morbid but upbeat, grim yet rapturous.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 15, 2013

The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind - and perhaps to blow it - long after it's over.

| Nov 14, 2013

Faust's worldview may be esoteric, but its vision is lucid.

| Nov 14, 2013

Sokurov's Faust is a work of crushing tedium, relieved only by the spare moments of beauty that pop out like dandelions in a washed-out landscape of oppression and grotesquerie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2013

Aleksandr Sokurov's demented, gunky take on the Faust legend tumbles from one scene into the next with loping, loopy energy.

| Original Score: A | Nov 14, 2013

Settle in, because this requires your charity, but you'll dream it all back up the next night.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2013

The film has the lingering feel of being dry-hump-assaulted by an unwashed psychotic.

| Nov 12, 2013

Though its ballast of jokes and spectacle are formidable, it often lurches about at a remote, enigmatic distance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 12, 2013

Zeiler, a relatively unknown actor outside of German 온라인카지노추천, energetically fills the main role with quick intelligence and unflagging self-confidence, which helps the viewer negotiate the dangerous ground he walks on.

| Nov 11, 2013

Undeniably the work of a master.

| Nov 4, 2013

This Faust is part bad dream, part music-less opera: sometimes muted and numb, though with hallucinatory flashes of fear.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2012

It comes roaring into view, shaking its glorious mane, and by the end has proved that the best way to honour a great original may be to eat it alive.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2012

A journey you'll want - nay, need - to take more than once in order to soak up its many immaculate layers of detail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2012

[It] has a sly humour and down-to-earth mystery that make it cumulatively compelling and allow the themes of the story to burrow deep within the viewer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2012

Forget Marlowe, Goethe, Gounod and Murnau, or rather, lay them aside, since the idiosyncratic helmer Alexander Sokurov adds his own spin on the classic legend.

| Feb 23, 2012