A movie that is much, much more nuts than it lets on.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

The unsettling horror plot with a one-note villain -- Whishaw's Grenouille is on a murderous pursuit to try and recapture the smell of his first murder victim -- is perfect for a 45-minute episode of a show like The X-Files.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 12, 2023

Whimsical, disgusting, beautiful, disturbing, and evocative, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer conjures all manner of responses.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

For all the emotions it might evoke, only fans of edgy, deranged cinema will find this singular fantasy palatable.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 21, 2020

Horrific, tender, emotional, visceral, psychologically enthralling, yet beautiful.

| Nov 14, 2019

Wishaw is excellent in the central role, which demands a murderous ambivalence akin to that of Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. What works well on the page, however, does not always necessarily work onscreen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

I despise this movie, more or less, for the promises it squanders.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 26, 2017

It's a hard film to like, but it's even harder to dismiss, simply because it's never less than absolutely fascinating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2009

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

[Its] off-the-charts screwiness obscures virtually all shortcomings.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 21, 2007

While you might not come away from a viewing feeling entirely satisfied, you will almost certainly have lots to talk about.

Full Review | Original Score: 74/100 | Jul 20, 2007

Tykwer squeezes every possible drop of melodramatic beauty out of this material. ...But the gorgeous visuals aren't enough to keep the drama from occasionally degenerating into beautifully produced hokum.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 15, 2007

Una estupenda reconstrucción histórica y un atractivo tratamiento visual son los principales valores de esta interesante aunque irregular adaptación.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2007

Plenty of high profile movies are about the tormented lives of artists. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer takes it up a notch: It's a legitimate artwork.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

Agree or disagree, this is a work so bold and provocative and distinctive that it demands to be seen.

| Mar 12, 2007

| Original Score: C | Mar 2, 2007

In a time when the serial killer subgenre is practically the definition of derivative, Perfume is %u2013 for better or for worse %u2013 a whiff of something uniquely fresh.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 12, 2007

| Original Score: 4/6 | Feb 3, 2007