The scenes of violence are marvelously put together. It is hard to realize that we are watching fiction... However, although The Wall is horrifying, it is not lurid; we are never allowed to derive from this film any satisfaction for our kinkiness.

| May 7, 2024

Not for everyone.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 3, 2022

What is the price of fame and is it vicariously experienced in concert with the successful or is it in the foundational underpinnings of a life lived in turmoil. Pink Floyd The Wall attempts to examine this unusual notion in cinematic form.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

As all operas should be, the film is high drama and folds in trippy animation, war flashbacks, gory sequences, and giants sets to tell its tale.

| Dec 8, 2021

Psych 101 on an epic scale.

| Original Score: A | Aug 11, 2020

Alan Parker has created a world of his own. It is unfortunate, however, that there isn't a consistent reflection behind it. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

This isn't the most fun to listen to and some viewers don't find it to much fun to watch, but the 1982 film is without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 6, 2018

It's a pretty grim portrait, but even worse it is often repetitive and boring. There are probably enough powerful segments for half a dozen or so outstanding rock videos but not a full-length feature.

| Oct 23, 2018

One of the more exceptional, unprecedented films to ever come from Great Britain, a guttural howl of rage at the darkest aspects of English culture.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 4, 2018

The film is explosively wild, raw, primitive, sometimes inarticulate. It is also totally theatrical and compelling. It's film as primal scream; seething with anger, alienation and despair.

| Apr 27, 2018

Parker's visual synthesis with the music, much aided by Scarfe's rip-roaring visions of doom and destruction which turn light into darkness at the flick of a pen rather than a switch, is almost perfect.

| Jul 15, 2016

"Do you think they'll drop the Bomb?" asks a loaded musical question at one irresistibly funny point. Obviously, they've already dropped it, and it's called "The Wall."

| Dec 21, 2015

Nothing is put together for you, but all the pieces of the puzzle are there for you to create what you want. It's refreshing to see a movie that is completely out of the box, and doesn't follow any present forumla. THE WALL is a great rock opera.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2012

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

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Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 2, 2005

Visually stunning and disturbing, an essential midnight movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2005

A stunning portrayal of a slide from isolation into madness. And the music rocks, too--bonus.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2004