Chicago Sun-Times by Bill Stamets

A sublime meditation on solitude.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

The Wall is no endurance test; rather, it presents the facts of the case, adding an eerie low hum to the soundtrack whenever Gedeck's character edges near her outer limits.

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

The Wall is a remarkably involving film, especially given its brave, self-imposed limitations.

The Guardian by Xan Brooks

Julian Roman Pölsler's bewitching debut manages to be at once a creepy sci-fi parable, a feminist Robinson Crusoe and a clear-eyed ode to the wonders of nature experienced in solitude. Walden pond with added wall.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

Call it a landlocked variant on Robinson Crusoe, but it’s a hypnotic one, with a sense of mystery and interior life that are all its own.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The Wall winds up as a captivating fable, an end-times scenario that’s more about the survival of the spirit than the body.

Washington Post by Stephanie Merry

Pölsler’s film is quietly deliberate without ever feeling slow.

Boston Globe by Ethan Gilsdorf

Bleak and beautiful, harrowing yet also curiously stirring, The Wall (“Die Wand”) is a stunning tale of isolation and survival that unfolds in a wild and silent world.

The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger

The photography is often lovely, and Ms. Gedeck convincingly portrays a woman who as the ordeal stretches on month after month seems to be gradually losing her individuality and blending into the landscape.

The Playlist by Gabe Toro

The Wall seems to be telling the story about assimilation, about a woman who accepts her lot and attempts to persevere through the cruelest of conditions, an unspoken martyr. Perhaps it would carry much more power had she not been so chatty.

Variety by Boyd van Hoeij

Though complementary, the pic’s images and voiceover never quite fuse into a single whole.

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

For all its stellar nature photography, its low hum of suspense, and Gedeck's raw and affecting performance, the film often feels like an illustrated audiobook rather than narrative drama.

Time Out by Eric Hynes

Though its blanketed voiceover narration can be too on-the-nose—it’s a metaphor, we get it—the film packs a psychic punch, thanks to Gedeck’s spectrally wearied face.

The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Haushofer’s book may be a classic, but this is the least imaginative way of filming it imaginable, short of simply pointing the camera at a copy and rapidly flipping the pages.

The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young

There's plenty of time for the viewer to muse on what The Wall might or might not symbolize -- when events finally take an abruptly surprising and violent turn, the tonal shift is unsatisfyingly awkward.

Slant Magazine by Tomas Hachard

We may find out how Gedeck's character reacts to her isolation, but we're never privy to her actual feelings, largely because in a film about a sudden onset of solitude, Pölsler is far too afraid of silence.