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The Mountain Reviews
One can easily watch the film the way Andy takes part in Wallace's odyssey-but you'll probably be disappointed if you expect the various ideas to add up to more than the sum of their parts.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 1, 2019
There's a chill about "The Mountain" that's conveyed in visual terms. And then it all, slowly and then completely, falls apart.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 6, 2019
The Mountain has productive veins of ore for those willing to mine it. But be aware that finding gems will require sweat equity.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2019
The Mountain dredges up so much that it doesn't seem to know where to go - but the sad horror of what's at stake, particularly for Andy, nevertheless come through.
| Jul 26, 2019
This is the kind of movie that gives art-house movies a bad name.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 26, 2019
The Mountain, with its long stretches of quiet, bleak subject matter, and Alverson's staunch refusal to let us in, or fill in the blanks, creates a genuinely unnerving mood.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2019
"The Mountain" is, after all, a look back at a time when individuality was a curse with a scientifically harsh solution. It's only appropriate that it unfold with its own distinctive aura of exquisite sterility.
| Jul 26, 2019
You can sense Alverson barely containing his laughter from behind the camera.
| Jul 26, 2019
For all its emotional restraint, Rick Alverson's film builds to a point of remarkable pathos.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2019
Probably best suited for the sort of on-a-loop side room you'd find in a modern art museum, where it could endlessly challenge viewers but give curious wanderers a quick way out if they've had enough.
| Jul 25, 2019
"The Mountain" sets forth a profoundly anhedonic vision of America - and humanity - that's simultaneously upsetting and mesmerizing.
| Jul 25, 2019
Alverson works not through stabs of irony but with a forbiddingly deliberate pace and straitened actors-a lobotomized style which restricts star Tye Sheridan's recessive indie-protagonist role to the same sullen expression. Everyone seems exhausted.
| Jul 24, 2019
"The Mountain" is what it is, and any attempt to recapitulate its meaning in some other form is a fool's errand.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 23, 2019
By the time Lavant goes on a semi-nonsensical monologue in French about hermaphrodites (another persistent, if mystifying, recurring image in the film), I had pretty much checked out.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 14, 2019
This somber and lyrical achievement is the warmest and most inviting work from a director who traffics in an acquired taste.
| Aug 30, 2018
An intriguingly dark and visionary head-scratcher.
| Aug 30, 2018
This is a meticulously made movie, which is impressive: given how much Alverson clearly despises the medium, and human life itself, I'm surprised he has this kind of motivation.
| Aug 30, 2018
A sustained and rather brilliant conjuring of atmosphere, with some superb ambient music, finally succumbs to a rather banal inability to decide where to take the story and exactly how important the story has been.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2018