100
Profound and majestic.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
One of the greatest of all Holocaust films.
90
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It represents something stranger and, to those of us with only a secondhand or thirdhand knowledge of that history, more disturbing: a survivor's conviction that there were aspects of the experience itself that can only be described as beautiful.
90
Exquisitely modulated and superbly mounted, the directing debut of skilled cinematographer Lajos Koltai went through an extended, unpredictable production history to emerge as a genuinely new way of looking at the Holocaust that is markedly different in tone from other such stories including "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist."
90
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Fateless is both haunting and poetic. It also is visually stunning.
90
Fateless has a remarkable absence of sentimentality. The movie is obviously artistic, but there are no cheap or superfluous effects. It's almost mystically translucent.
60
Long, heavy, and not particularly edifying Holocaust drama.
100
This exceptional film features some of the most beautiful cinematography ever seen on film, in service of some of the most horrible images imaginable.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
In the juxtaposition of cataclysmic matter-of-fact misery and cinematic poetry, the filmmaker finds a calmly stunning way to convey the experience of living with death as something intimate, and, unnervingly, almost natural.
100
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
This is a Holocaust movie that is so relentlessly observed and so aware of woe that it never feels like it belongs to a genre.