Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024

Ullmann’s best work by far, with one of the greatest film performances ever, by Lena Endre.

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Roger Clarke Independent (UK) Mar 26, 2024 2/5

A suffocating, anachronistic piece of film-making.

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Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing Jan 29, 2020

Faithless is an engrossing assertion of the Swedish art film director's propensity for profound navel-gazing into the morality of our actions.

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Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal Feb 5, 2018

It's all the more moving that, after half a lifetime, Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann are still seeking illumination, and expiation, through the public yet intensely personal medium of film.

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Keith Uhlich House Next Door Apr 19, 2008

This could be a regretful remembrance of things past on the part of "Bergman" or it could be a pure fiction torn from the ether.

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Jason Gorber Film Scouts Jun 21, 2007 A-

While not to everyone's taste, the technical and narrative complexity alone are to be applauded - the film looks gorgeous, and the film is both literate and witty.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid May 26, 2006 3.5/4

Faithless comes with a pedigree that's hard to beat.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 30, 2005 2/5

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Steve Murray Atlanta Journal-Constitution Feb 21, 2004 B+

It's a movie that shows us that the silence between two people can be more dramatic than 100 pages of dialogue.

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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Oct 15, 2003 4/5

Slow, but involving Ullman-Bergman collaboration.

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Harry Guerin RTÉ (Ireland) Mar 4, 2003 3/5

Faithless is a journey worth taking, but it's best to travel alone.

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Greg Muskewitz eFilmCritic.com Dec 10, 2002 2/5

The then over-amplification of psychiatric-like meetings and counseling and the trivial and pedestrian matter of the affair are drowned in a mawkish, morose and unendurable pacing.

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Peter Rainer New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 20, 2002

Bergman has been far better at working out these themes than anything in Faithless would suggest.

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John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews Nov 20, 2002 B

No longer seeking God and Truth, Bergman now searches for the more attainable goals of forgiveness and redemption.

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Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan Nov 20, 2002

Henriksson, Hanzon and Josephson are fine as well, but the film belongs to Endre and Gylemo.

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Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Nov 20, 2002 2/5

Without giving too much away, I can tell you that my response to these events was a thundering 'duh.'

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Nov 20, 2002 3.5/5

It's well worth seeing ... as long as two and a half hours of intense Swedish drama don't scare you off!

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David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor Nov 20, 2002 3/4

A probing look at love, marriage, fidelity, rivalry, and other deep-rooted emotional issues.

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Ian Mantgani UK Critic Nov 20, 2002 3/4

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F.X. Feeney L.A. Weekly Oct 21, 2002

Bergman has reached for a woman's insight his whole career. Ullmann completes this for him.

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