Faust
Leisure Time Features | Release Date: November 15, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
NPRMark JenkinsNov 15, 2013
German history and culture are among Sokurov's concerns in this visually compelling, intellectually scattershot movie. Read full review
40
The DissolveScott TobiasNov 14, 2013
Freely adapted from Goethe’s two-part play, Sokurov’s Faust is a work of crushing tedium, relieved only by the spare moments of beauty that pop out like dandelions in a washed-out landscape of oppression and grotesquerie. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 2, 2013
This Faust is part bad dream, part music-less opera: sometimes muted and numb, though with hallucinatory flashes of fear. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounNov 2, 2013
It has a rigorous, even unrelenting, grey, green and brown palette and, narratively, it’s tough to penetrate. Read full review
40
VarietyJay WeissbergNov 2, 2013
[A] film with a maddeningly opaque narrative and a brutalizing cascade of nonstop verbiage. Read full review
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