Click here to copy URL

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976

Nicolas Roeg

David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry ...

5.5

1,848

Sci-Fi An alien being travels to Earth in human form with a plan to bring water to his own dying planet. Once on Earth, the superintelligent space traveler begins making the social and financial climbs necessary for his plot to succeed. But he finds earthly pleasures far more enticing than he ever imagined and gradually slides into a life of shallow debauchery.

	Media	Author	Review
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"The most intellectually provocative genre film of the 1970s"
		James Mottram Total Film	"It’s ambitious, artful and unique. As for Bowie… what a star, man."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Bowie, slender, elegant, remote, evokes this alien so successfully that one could say, without irony, this was a role he was born to play."
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Feels like a tedious historical artifact. It's a sci-fi 'Days of Wine and Roses' for the arthouse crowd."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A freaky, compelling concept album of a film (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Matt Noller Slant	"Among the most bizarre films in Nicolas Roeg's oeuvre. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Gritten Telegraph	"Such a bold, imaginative work would never get made in today's fettered, cautious film industry, either here or in America"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"Nicolas Roeg's obfuscating style tricks it up, though the film is ultimately an empty thing."
		The Hollywood Reporter	"By turns, creepy and cheesy, literate and vapid."
		Variety Staff Variety	"Establishes [its] British director as one of the most talented and imaginative new filmmakers in this part of the world. It's a demanding effort which will provide a challenge."

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.