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51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 36 Critics What's this?

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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 290 Ratings

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 36
  3. Negative: 7 out of 36
  1. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Glenn Kenny
    100
    As it happens, each one of these tales is also a love story, and The Fountain is Aronofsky's profession of faith concerning love's place in the idea of eternity. It's a movie that's as deeply felt as it is imagined.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    50
    The Fountain is probably too muddled and half-baked to even attain cult status -- but you can still see what writer-director Darren Aronofsky was striving for, and even if his reach exceeded his grasp, his intentions were both admirable and worthy of respect.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Overflows with pretensions and absurdity.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 124 out of 158
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 158
  3. Negative: 26 out of 158
  1. Chicks
    10
    This movie was absolutely beautiful. I just loved it so much. There's something fantastic about it, but it seems everyone doesn't get it based on some reviews I've read. I found The Fountain to be intense, emotional, touching and extraordinary. Like nothing I've seen before.… Expand
    • 3 of 3 users said yes
  2. J-Shap
    5
    Aronofsky is adventurous in ways that many filmmakers are not. He is able to be bold, grab an idea by the horns and take it where he wants to, and choosing to do so in the methods he sees as the most clear. The Fountain is a misfire on this concept. It is a film disconnected from any sort of root (which is odd, given that trees show up a lot in it), the audience or it's own story. It has all of its interests into itself, but never bothers to actually care for what it's trying to do, because it's too busy thinking. Can't it just stop to smell the roses. Kubrick could do that.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. LondonTruelove
    0
    I thought The New World with Colin Farrell was the worst movie I would ever see in my life....then I saw this heap of steaming feces. If I could give it a negative score I would.… Expand
    • 2 of 4 users said yes

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