Face to Face
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 5, 1976 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Face to Face is an extremely intense experience from start to finish, due in large part to Ullmann's performance as she powerfully expresses a range of emotions seldom seen in American films. Read full review
90
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Bergman creates a stunning picture not only of personal anxiety but also of the fury that may exist just below the surface of any perfect state. Read full review
80
Time Out
The acting is intense, as you would expect from Ullmann and Josephson, working under a director who was coming to terms with his own breakdown in this film; and the nightmare imagery (washed-out backgrounds clashing vividly with stark colours) delivers a strong jolt to the subconscious. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A confused and sometimes overwrought new treatment of the director's most obsessive theme, suicide. Read full review
60
TimeJay Cocks
This is a strange, stormy period for Ingmar Bergman. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineBudd Wilkins
Face to Face feels scattershot and incomplete, never adequately establishing connections between characters, motivations for significant actions, or even the simple causalities of time and space. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Ingmar Bergman at his most painful, pretentious, and empty. Read full review
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