The Fallout is terrific, and terrifically real.

| Apr 21, 2022

“The Fallout” tells a story from the perspective of the survivors and it’s an urgent voice we need to listen to.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022

The filmmaker takes on a wrenching subject and shapes it into a movie that never looks away, even as it remains painstakingly focused on communicating the impact of those horrors in moments that might otherwise seem ordinary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2022

There are moments of levity, times for a morbid joke and times for being so silly you forget (for a bit) that anything bad ever happened to you. Jenna Ortega handles those two tones incredibly deftly for such a young actor.

| Feb 11, 2022

What The Fallout ultimately conveys is the dynamic shape that trauma can take and how crucial it is to show compassion.

| Feb 2, 2022

The Fallout is not just a superb tearjerker, a profound teen dramedy, or great good-cry cinema. It's a gift, giving us the space to tremble, tear up, and let go.

| Jan 29, 2022

A bunch of good performances in an auspicious debut.

| Jan 29, 2022

This is a great debut by writer-director Megan Park.

| Jan 29, 2022

What this debut feature from Megan Park gets right is how painfully awkward and strange the effects of trauma can often be, especially when experienced by a group of adolescents.

| Jan 27, 2022

A movie like "The Fallout" is hard to end. How do you end it? At what point do you end it? To Park's credit, she comes up with something simple, powerful and just right.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2022

The movie is low-key... a winning approach to such delicate subject matter.

| Original Score: B | Jan 27, 2022

"The Fallout" is an honest, harrowing portrait of teenage life and anguish in the aftermath of an all-too-relatable event that too many people have had to deal with, and are continuing to have to deal with.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 26, 2022

This is a special film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 26, 2022

Eschews sweeping societal commentary for a tight focus on the messy ways in which individuals recover from trauma.

| Mar 30, 2021

Park has lined up a strong cast of young performers and allowed them the chance to dig deep into tough material. Ortega is particularly moving as Vada, and Pollack turns in a sneakily layered turn as young Amelia.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 25, 2021

In a moment of levity and an attempt to mentally float through the day, Vada takes E, and channels Jaques Tati on the stairs of her high school. Her effervescent performance is sublime, a perfect vessel for the film to find equilibrium.

| Mar 25, 2021

Park's script wants to sit with someone after this experience and capture their evolution, but sometimes it seems like it wants to simply represent instead of further push us. The tone can be weak in the process...

| Mar 22, 2021

A resilient character study of grief in all its forms.

| Original Score: B | Mar 21, 2021

Sensitive and piercing.

| Mar 18, 2021

It's a remarkable accomplishment: a film with the confidence to pose big questions, and the humility to leave them unanswered.

| Mar 18, 2021