Won 1 BAFTA Film Award9 wins & 3 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Only those who still quiver at the shopworn lament that advancing technology is destroying the world will find the philosophizing vital in this bookish stupor.
– Sam Weisberg,
Village Voice,
11 Nov 2014
fresh:
A grand, unworldly, even antiworldly religious vision that depends on its perfect pitch to avoid absurdity and bathos.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Nov 2014
rotten:
For those willing to acccept the tenets of Tarkovsky's cinema of spiritual quest, his esoteric notions of Christian iconography and his obscure approach to cinematic meaning, the film can seem nothing less than miraculous.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
The Sacrifice is a stunningly beautiful film that holds your attention even while you feel slightly stunned, in a less welcome way, by what is actually going on.
– Walter Goodman,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
Tarkovsky pulls you into a dark, foreboding nightmare and Nykvist [Bergman's former cameraman] gives that nightmare an explosive awakening.