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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 5

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 10 Mar 2011

It is to director Tykwer's credit that, although you never come close to understanding Jean-Baptiste, you don't turn your nose up at him, either…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Oct 2010

Perfume misses some of the subtler base notes of Süskind's creepier, more self-aware original, but Whishaw and Tykwer blend the movie into…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 19 Jun 2010

Deeply flawed though it may be, Perfume is a challenging motion picture, and one whose impressions are not easily shaken…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Rick Kisonak (485) for Film Threat (5,156) on 08 Aug 2009

Tykwer makes of all this murder and madness a concoction of improbable beauty and rare artistry…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 25 Mar 2009

It's a hard film to like, but it's even harder to dismiss, simply because it's never less than absolutely fascinating…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Jan 2009

By the time Perfume arrives at its ridiculous mass orgy, staged at the gallows where Grenouille is supposed to meet his end, you really would…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Nov 2008

Try as it might to be refined and provocative, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer never rises above the pedestrian creepiness of its conceit…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jun 2008

Director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and cowriters Andrew Birkin and Bernd Eichinger preserve some of the novel's storytelling flair, and Dustin…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 03 Mar 2008

This is a dark, dark, dark film, focused on an obsession so complete and lonely it shuts out all other human experience…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Lessons of Darkness (465) on 21 Nov 2007

[Its] off-the-charts screwiness obscures virtually all shortcomings…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Jul 2007

This isn't pleasant to watch…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 19 Jul 2007

While you might not come away from a viewing feeling entirely satisfied, you will almost certainly have lots to talk about…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Enrique Buchichio (359) for Uruguay Total (359) on 05 Apr 2007

Una estupenda reconstrucción histórica y un atractivo tratamiento visual son los principales valores de esta interesante aunque irregular…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Mark Palermo (504) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 15 Mar 2007

Plenty of high profile movies are about the tormented lives of artists…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 30 Jan 2007

Ghastly and horrific, entertaining and mesmerizing, and it smells fantastic…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 26 Jan 2007

The film, though admirably ambitious, is resolutely earthbound, mired in ick and slime and never more wooden than in the delirious climax…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Urban Cinefile Critics (1,069) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 25 Jan 2007

An intoxicating fable about a man whose phenomenal sense of smell sets him on an irrevocable course, Perfume is a captivating, if overlong adaptation…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 25 Jan 2007

Stanley Kubrick e Martin Scorsese chegaram a declarar que [Perfume], livro do alemão Patrick Süskind, seria infilmável. Pois até os gênios erram…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Ted Murphy (205) for Murphy's Movie Reviews (147) on 11 Jan 2007

Tykwer's direction is solid, Whishaw lends a weight to the character and despite having little dialogue delivers a masterful performance…

Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 11 Jan 2007

Unpleasant yet intriguing, Perfume isn't exactly a breath of fresh air -- it's more like having smelling salts applied to one's cinematic experience…

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