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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallTo 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.
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennySalvador'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.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAlthough Pierre’s intentions remain debatable, the story becomes a subtle treatise on solitude, ecology and, it would seem, following your bliss.
- 50Wall Street JournalKyle SmithWall Street JournalKyle SmithFor all of the moments of splendor and awe in The Mountain, I’d have preferred a less open-ended film.
- 40The New York TimesAmy NicholsonThe New York TimesAmy NicholsonSome 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.
- 38Slant MagazineGreg NussenSlant MagazineGreg NussenThomas 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.