Cinafilm has over 5 million movie reviews and counting …

About Us
Contact Us
Sitemap
Follow us onCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest

Last updated: 05 Jun 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Back to movie details

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) - Movie Reviews - Page 37 of 39

721-740 of 770 Reviews

Sort by:

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

By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 10 Jan 2007

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is another nauseous example of style over content: a toxic tale of serial homicide set in 18th-century France…

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

By David Kaplan (436) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 09 Jan 2007

overcomes a laborious start to end in a breathtaking, whirlwind finish…

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

By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 09 Jan 2007

The film itself is way too long, culminating in a ludicrous orgy scene…

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

By Syzygy (17) on 07 Jan 2007

For not the last fifteen or so minutes, this would have been a film to remember for the right reasons…

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

By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 05 Jan 2007

Tykwer has to set a unique tone here -- fairy tales about serial killers being somewhat rare -- and he manages the absurdity of his subject…

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

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 05 Jan 2007

Grenouille's obsession is, in the end, much like that of the less ornately literary killers who precede him, producing desperately conventional…

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

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 05 Jan 2007

Tykwer's smash-and-grab directing style lacks the magisterial flair of the original novel by Patrick Suskind, which was celebrated by no less…

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

By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 05 Jan 2007

Tykwer, best known for the ultramodern chase movie Run Lola Run, would seem an unusual choice for a period film, but he infuses the sometimes…

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

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Jan 2007

The movie talks suggestively about smells but can't quite find a way to bring them to life, so [director Tom] Tykwer uses images to rub our…

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

By Jack Garner (583) for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (558) on 05 Jan 2007

Director Tom Tykwer masterfully conveys the sensuality of smell via captivating images…

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

By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 05 Jan 2007

Even if that broad interpretation -- that art is worth any human cost, that identity can be put on, like a scent -- leaves you cold, there's…

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

By Paul Doro (69) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 05 Jan 2007

Perfume is not gratuitously violent, nor does it focus on the act of murder itself…

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

By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 05 Jan 2007

The movie is pretty to look at, but over-long and, in the end, self-conscious. What a disappointment…

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

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 05 Jan 2007

Lush visuals and lusty, rhapsodic language bring Perfume as close as cinematically possible to capturing an elusive sense…

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

By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 05 Jan 2007

Perfume reminds us that the line between masterwork and folly can be awfully thin…

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

By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 05 Jan 2007

By the time the mad finale rolls around, the viewer will feel had, for Perfume grasps for significance where there is none to be found…

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

By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 05 Jan 2007

Director Tom Tykwer can be commended for capturing so much of the book's mélange of pleasure, pain and longing for the impossible in Perfume,…

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

By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 04 Jan 2007

There's a vacuum at the heart of this gothic melodrama. The intent is frustratingly cloudy, and the visuals are more resonant than the performances…

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

By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 04 Jan 2007

No movie has ever engaged me quite the way Perfume did, casting a spell during that first half-hour that lasted until I left the theater…

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

By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 04 Jan 2007

Jack the Ripper meets Scent of a Woman in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, an example of why certain books are deemed unfilmable, no matter…

1
...
36
37
38
39

Page 37 of 39

More reviews of this movie:

John Hurt - Top 5 movies:

Dustin Hoffman - Top 5 movies:

Karoline Herfurth - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

1994

85%938 Reviews

Dancer in the Dark

2000

79%665 Reviews

1927

87%33 Reviews

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2006

68%987 Reviews

1972

93%948 Reviews

The Good German

2006

54%605 Reviews

My Life Without Me

2003

71%527 Reviews

1930

81%147 Reviews

1997

60%342 Reviews

1997

76%871 Reviews

Natural Born Killers

1994

73%616 Reviews

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000

77%780 Reviews

Share This Page

Share

Tweet

Popular Movies Right Now

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

2019

81%171 Reviews

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

2014

69%994 Reviews

2015

54%174 Reviews

2019

87%251 Reviews

2019

53%39 Reviews

2023

74%83 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006

70%770 Reviews

2008

77%972 Reviews

2018

69%1,005 Reviews

2009

53%731 Reviews

2007

56%6 Reviews

2011

62%564 Reviews

1997

66%468 Reviews

2010

62%528 Reviews

Insidious: Chapter 2

2013

58%939 Reviews

2006

65%607 Reviews

Get social with CinafilmFollow us for reviews of the latest moviesCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest Cinafilm - RSS

© 2026 Cinafilm Internet Productions

Prime Video logo is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates

Our website support team can be reached by email at [email protected], or by phoning +44 3300 431 396

Cinafilm IP, Office 12693, PO Box 15113, Birmingham, West Midlands, B2 2NJ, United Kingdom