92
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoFervently passionate and formally meticulous, the latest stunning coup for a director who's made a career of repurposing archetypal storylines.
- 100Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt is the richly evocative performances of Marion (aggressive yet enticing) and Merhar (wearing world-weariness like an aged suit) that cut deepest.
- 100Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonOne of the year's most hypnotic and fascinating films.
- 100A marvelous experience for any devoted cinephile.
- 90L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyAlmayer's Folly is lush and dreamy (if not quite dreamlike), but it never feels unanchored or given to pointless meandering. However hypnotic it at times becomes, this is a sober(ing) endeavor that never strays far from its post-colonial backdrop.
- Almayer's Folly is not friendly terrain to traverse; like some sinister version of Proust, it is a prolonged fever dream that ultimately yields madness.