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The Fountain (2006)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Bob Townsend "...metaphysical mess." more... D   Boston Globe Ty Burr "Does the movie work? Hardly, and yet the thing's alive with the urgency of its emotions." more... B- Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "It's an incredibly ambitious film of sometimes thrilling visual achievement, but it didn't connect fully to my mind and nerves." more... B- E! Online Dezhda Mountz "Advance word of mouth sold The Fountain as a dense, pompous, plodding existential muddle. And it is." more... C   filmcritic.com Christopher Null "The rest of the movie is a meditation on loss, grief, science, and 'closure,' more of a sci-fi think piece than the grand adventure you might be hoping for." more... B- New York Post Kyle Smith "...visually stunning..." more... B- New York Times A.O. Scott "...tries to replace the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and visual metaphors. I wish I could say that it succeeded." more... C   ReelViews James Berardinelli "The overall experience fails to satisfy on a basic level. This is one of those films it's easier to be impressed with than it is to like." more... B- RogerEbert.com Jim Emerson "...springs from a passion to take risks..." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...a risk worth taking." more... B- San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein "...despite writer-director Darren Aronofsky's noble goal to do something startlingly original on an epic scale, he's come up with a script that isn't particularly fresh..." more... D+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...while the film is intriguing as it's transpiring, it has very little impact." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "...overflows with pretensions and absurdity." more... C- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)