The Fallout
HBO Max | Release Date (Streaming): January 27, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 20, 2021
It’s a remarkable accomplishment: a film with the confidence to pose big questions, and the humility to leave them unanswered. Read full review
90
The New York TimesClaire ShafferJan 27, 2022
Ortega nails her role as a levelheaded teen who, nevertheless, is still a teen, reeling from an unthinkable event on top of the usual growing pains. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMar 20, 2021
Mainly Park lets her actors interact, their humor deadpan, their pain unfathomable, their hormones surging and their flirtations halting. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 26, 2022
It’s a memorably stark and authentic work that is at times so gut-wrenching it’s almost unbearable — but Park deftly weaves in moments of warmth and humor and hope as well. This is a special film. Read full review
83
IndieWireKate ErblandMar 20, 2021
While The Fallout allows for lightness to occasionally emerge, the film never forgets the experience at its center, one that can never be fully forgotten. Read full review
80
SlateIlana KaplanFeb 1, 2022
The Fallout doesn’t need fanfare or gore to make its point: In its starkness, the film is undeniably striking and reveals no matter how much healing takes place after a tragedy like a school shooting, its devastating impact will persist. Read full review
80
Screen RantRachel LaBonteJan 27, 2022
Grief and trauma don't provide easy answers and The Fallout doesn't either. But it does take viewers on a poignant journey right alongside its heroine. It can be heavy, but it can also hold moments of humor and joy. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 20, 2021
Writer-director Megan Park’s unassuming feature debut sensitively argues that young people should never have to face such horrific circumstances — but, given enough time, they can prove stronger than their concerned parents imagine. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 27, 2022
It’s a school shooting movie for this particular moment and plays like a dispatch from the front lines. It’s past trying to figure out what these tragedies mean. It just wants to explore how a person might assimilate such a trauma and go forward in life. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubCharles BramescoJan 26, 2022
With a firm handle on tone, Park skirts the pitfalls of bad taste one might expect from a film that uses mass violence as a narrative device for a coming-of-age plot. Read full review
75
The Film StageJohn FinkApr 5, 2021
Covering the same ground as many fiction and non-fiction works about grieving and action in the wake of tragedy, Park’s picture feels somewhat more nuanced. Read full review
75
The PlaylistRobert DanielsMar 21, 2021
These young performers are always true to themselves. Honest and bare without inhibitions. Which is fitting for a movie that’s about rebuilding oneself and one’s connections to the world by telling yourself that the pain is okay. The hurt is real. And the love we give never dies. Park’s The Fallout is a resilient character study of grief in all its forms. Read full review
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