The Man Who Fell to Earth
Cinema 5 Distributing | Release Date: May 28, 1976 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Total FilmJames Mottram
It’s ambitious, artful and unique. As for Bowie… what a star, man. Read full review
100
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
It may be time to stop calling Nicolas Roeg's sexed-up sci-fi film that vaguely demeaning term - a cult classic - and start addressing it as what it is: the most intellectually provocative genre film of the 1970s. Read full review
100
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
The story unfolds in a daring sequence of narrative leaps. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTom Huddleston
Bowie’s performance is riveting, drawing on his history of mime to play a man who is almost, but not quite, one of us. Read full review
80
CineVueDaniel Green
The choice of casting Bowie as Newton is inspired - the androgynous star perfectly suiting the role of the space visitor. Bowie - in his first silver-screen appearance - excels, creating a perfectly suited sense of tragedy and melancholic ambiguity. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Bowie, slender, elegant, remote, evokes this alien so successfully that one could say, without irony, this was a role he was born to play. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
There's an inherent contradiction at the film's core: this sexually explicit motion picture, seemingly made by and for altered consciousnesses, is all about how an innocent newcomer falls prey to gin, sex, and television. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
It's not just the grainy stock and bad sound - technically, we've come a long way. It's the cheesy sex, the awkward edits, the hammy symbolism, the mix of art-house aesthetics and exploitation cliché. Strange creature, this is. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Undeniably long, Panavision-wide, but of questionable depth. Read full review
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