Not everyone in the world will be susceptible enough to fall under its surreal magic, but I've seen it three times, and each time I like it even more. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 27, 2023

weaves a uniquely intriguing web, balancing emotional realism with highly stylized artifice in a way that Gilliam has been largely unable to reproduce since

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2023

There are two terrific performances in The Fisher King, and neither belong to Robin Williams.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 16, 2023

"The Fisher King" is an unexpected powerhouse of a film. Given the material the script navigates, one would not expect such a tale of horrible grief to reach such heights of hilarity and still stick the landing.

| Apr 11, 2023

It's a tenderly optimistic yet unsentimental tall tale, a Hollywood film in the best sense of the term.

| Dec 7, 2022

A humane, empathetic, and very funny movie about a couple of down-on-their-luck guys, one of whom was a full-on street person. (30th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2021

Stuffed to the point of emotional, narrative, and logical imbalance, there are as many moments of beauty as inelegance. But Gilliam's ambitious odd-couple outfit, based on a script from Richard LaGravenese, revels in its own unique flavoring.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2020

The relationship between Jack and Perry feels lived in ... Yet, the movie's relationship to the themes of mental illness, mass shooting and homelessness are clumsier.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2018

At times loud and brash, at others introvert and delicate, Gilliam has crafted something rather special in this rightfully-beloved film.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 11, 2018

Gilliam is not a director who does things by halves, and The Fisher King is as funny and emotive as the best of his work. Indeed, it's the heightened humanity of this film that resonates the strongest.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2017

The search for the Holy Grail reaches peak insanity in this wild, redemptive ride through two men's interconnected lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2017

Intense '90s drama has gory violence, mature themes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2016

[Numbers] among the director's masterpieces.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 8, 2015

Gilliam exaggerates the romanticism, the grotesquerie, and the personal pain that runs through LaGravenese's story, creating a reality where the more preposterous turns make sense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2015

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

It's sometimes hard to follow the action, but you have a bit of fun trying to figure it all out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2011

The Fisher King's problems begin with Richard LaGravenese's screenplay and are amplified by Gilliam's showy direction and an unbearably fey performance by Robin Williams.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 29, 2010

Visually impressive, frequently pretentious, and extremely fluid as narrative (the 137 minutes sail by effortlessly), this mythic comedy-drama presents Gilliam as half seer, half snake-oil salesman and defies you to sort out which is which.

| Jan 29, 2010

As always, Williams turns romance into slush, but Gilliam reigns it in with his mad and magical design.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2010

Although there are moments when the mixture of comedy, fantasy and drama don't come off, this is still an original, touching movie that is well worth the price of a ticket.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2010