The Mountain
Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 1, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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3
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2
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen DailyLee MarshallAug 28, 2023
To reveal much at all about the film’s abrupt change of register around two-thirds of the way in would be unfair. Suffice to say that if The Mountain has been a very austere, mid-life-male variation on Into The Wild up to now, it soon feels like we are watching a Gaspar Noé movie, with a little dose of Miyazaki thrown into the mix. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAug 31, 2023
Salvador's movie wants to penetrate something elemental in the viewer; if you can give in to its vision in good faith, it might just do that for you. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSep 15, 2023
Although Pierre’s intentions remain debatable, the story becomes a subtle treatise on solitude, ecology and, it would seem, following your bliss. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithAug 31, 2023
For all of the moments of splendor and awe in The Mountain, I’d have preferred a less open-ended film. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonAug 31, 2023
Some might see the final act as body horror. To the director, it’s a metaphysical sacrament — and all along, his camera has hinted that mankind must commit to the planet before it’s too late. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineGregory NussenAug 28, 2023
Thomas Salvador frustratingly never offers a concrete sense of what his character feels that he’s lost, and so we’re tasked with loading meaning onto the character’s journey of apparent self-reclamation. Read full review
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