Rotten
A grueling side show of a film, a morbid, mightily uninvolving piece ...
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Overview
Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind - and perhaps to blow it - long after it's over.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh
Faust's worldview may be esoteric, but its vision is lucid.
Mark Jenkins, NPR
Fresh
Aleksandr Sokurov's demented, gunky take on the Faust legend tumbles from one scene into the next with loping, loopy energy.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Fresh
Settle in, because this requires your charity, but you'll dream it all back up the next night.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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