Nationwide Releases
The Fountain
Directed: Darren Aronofsky
Traveling through three time periods–1500, 2000 and 2500 to cover the themes of life, love and death.
RT Score: 50%
RT Consensus: The Fountain — a movie about metaphysics, universal patterns, Biblical symbolism, and boundless love spread across one thousand years — is visually rich but suffers from its own unfocused ambitions.
Folly? Maybe. But a risk worth taking.
- Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
I’m perfectly content to float with [Aronofsky] even if he doesn’t solve the riddles of the universe.
- Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
Whether Laughable Folly or Fool’s Errand or (Possible) Head-Scratching, Noggin-Expanding Masterwork, there’s never a moment where it’s anything less than sincere.
- Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
An artsy-fartsy disaster…a would-be film of ideas that runs dry of them very quickly.
- Frank Swietek
One Guy’s Opinion
A feature-length fortune cookie.
- Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly
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