Faust
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Faust (2011)

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6.6
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 9,836 votes
6.8/10 3,551 votes Synced 2026-08-07
6.5/10 6,064 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 8.1/10 10 votes Synced 2026-07-21
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6.6/10 211 votes Synced 2026-08-23

External reviews

Nikola Grozdanovic · The Playlist 67.00/100.00

If there are strokes of genius in this film, they are buried deep under the grime of the aesthetics and the unrelenting dialogue that never seems to stop for air.

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Godfrey Cheshire · RogerEbert.com 75.00/100.00

Indeed, compared to many Sokurov films, this one has an enlivening paradoxicality: it's morbid but upbeat, grim yet rapturous.

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A.O. Scott · The New York Times 90.00/100.00

The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind — and perhaps to blow it — long after it’s over.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · The A.V. Club 100.00/100.00

It manages to convey a desire for power in abstract terms, divorced from material gain or a need to be admired. What’s more, it manages to do it with energy and a good deal of weird humor.

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Bill Weber · Slant Magazine 63.00/100.00

Though its ballast of jokes and spectacle are formidable, it often lurches about at a remote, enigmatic distance

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Joshua Rothkopf · Time Out 80.00/100.00

Often, Faust plays like a lost cousin to Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunted Stalker (1979), catnip for the slow-and-low crowd. Settle in, because this requires your charity, but you’ll dream it all back up the next night.

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Michael Atkinson · Village Voice 80.00/100.00

Faust is not your great-granddaddy's selling-your-soul fable, but something new, a dreamy immersion into the messiness of myth, where hubris and desire can get lost in the chaos of time and retelling.

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Marc Mohan · Portland Oregonian 75.00/100.00

As usual, the director is a wizard at camera movement and more than willing to plunge his audience into unpleasantness.

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Deborah Young · The Hollywood Reporter 80.00/100.00

This is far from a dull, academic work and the fast-paced talk is matched by swiftly changing scenes full of vibrant visuals. Life bubbles out of each frame in a grungy, foul-smelling rush.

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Kevin Harley · Total Film 80.00/100.00

Alexander Sokurov’s riff on Goethe’s tragedy is a bewildering but blazingly styled fever-dream epic.

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