”There’s something intentionally disjointed about the filmmaking. The camera angles are slightly obtuse and ambient sounds are mixed distractingly loud. Hamaguchi deliberately uses such disorienting cinematic devices to evoke the disharmony and inevitable imbalances in man’s relationship to nature. His scenic shots of the forest are hardly soothing.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/08/2024

”Sometimes we just want to watch movie stars being charming. The Fall Guy understands this well enough that you’re inclined to give the rest of the messy movie a pass. Still, a shorter, cheaper version probably would have worked a whole lot better. It’s easy to imagine a 105-minute incarnation directed by John Badham being a mid-summer programmer back in 1988.” – North Shore Movies, 05/02/2024

”Lee’s novel became a sensation on TikTok, probably because it keys into some of the weirdest mental health issues infecting our youth-obsessed culture. Alas, the movie has been carefully engineered to avoid or at least gloss over most of these matters in favor of an excessively pleasant wish fulfillment fantasy buoyed by the chemistry between its two leads.” – North Shore Movies, 05/02/2024