Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

This is a dark, dark, dark film, focused on an obsession so complete and lonely it shuts out all other human experience. You may not savor it, but you will not stop watching it, in horror and fascination.Read Full Review »

Perfume misses some of the subtler base notes of Süskind's creepier, more self-aware original, but Whishaw and Tykwer blend the movie into something quite heady in its own bottle.Read Full Review »

A memorable and outrageous movie, but one more likely to be remembered as a massive folly than a whopping success.Read Full Review »

Deeply flawed though it may be, Perfume is a challenging motion picture, and one whose impressions are not easily shaken.Read Full Review »

Perfume is a pitch-black period epic of squalor and enterprise.Read Full Review »

It's a noble experiment in pushing the limits of cinema, but Tykwer never achieves true profundity.Read Full Review »

There are sniff movies and there are snuff movies, but Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is both. It has the bouquet of balm and blood. Imagine "Fragrance of the Lambs."Read Full Review »

It's simultaneously arty, arcane and nasty.Read Full Review »

What's missing is less a sense of the protagonist's inner nose (which is very well-trammeled) as a sense of his inner life, motivation or desire.Read Full Review »

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