The fantastical stories transport the girl and the audience through marvelous settings and landscapes, which serve as a tribute to storytellers, to love, to the power of imagination, and to cinema [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 19, 2024

Despite how we may be feeling at any given moment, it’s important to look around at the stories and the people surrounding our life, and seek out the inherent beauty in all of it

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2024

The Fall is an unmatched feat in visual storytelling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 11, 2024

I have to admit that in general the film’s rather placid, stately, fantasy style can be exasperatingly inert... [But] there are some startling images and the film has a distinct, odd flavour of its own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2024

As a story, The Fall misses its mark. As a work of art and a portrayal of childhood, it dazzles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2023

Mostly eschewing the digital effects that most filmmakers rely on today, The Fall presents a love letter to visual storytelling and, in its use of a stuntman as a protagonist, the tactile potential of cinema in the hands of dreamers and fabulists.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 13, 2023

It plays out like a Lady Gaga music video, but Tarsem's madcap dreaming feels justified by the end.

| Jan 8, 2022

Appears visually astounding at times, yet oddly recycled at others.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

It would shine much more intensely if it had a script that lived up to its visual personality, but that doesn't stop 'The Fall' from standing out as the best example of the art of a director possessed of a unique look. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 8, 2020

The Fall is an encounter with the mythic in human history and you want to give Singh a pat on the back for his chutzpah, even if the film itself registers as terrifyingly self-indulgent and often incoherent.

| Jan 28, 2020

The Fall is Tarsem's imagination unleashed, brilliantly original and gloriously imperfect, and the world is a better place for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

A story that doesn't make logical, traditional sense, but a story that makes perfect, simple sense in what it says: you can never know how someone will respond to your stories, what you'll ask of each other, what you'll give.

| Aug 24, 2018

Singh's film is sometimes confusing and fractured, but strong performances, unusual visuals and the story's resonance make The Fall worth taking.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 13, 2018

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

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

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

So what if the front story is a little contrived?

| Aug 15, 2011

Often praised -- and rightly so -- for its incredible visuals and nonstop stylishness. I have no problem with that, except that I'm equally taken by its thematic implications.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

I wonder if it's unforgivable heresy to say The Cell is badly underestimated and due for revisionism while The Fall, despite its relative obscurity, is badly overestimated.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 9, 2009

...a movie that not only expected me to pay attention, it assumed that I could.

| Feb 2, 2009