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[[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote that the film "sweeps you up on waves of humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-fisher-king-19910920 |title=The Fisher King |first=Peter |last=Travers |author-link=Peter Travers |date=September 20, 1991 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110420171209/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-fisher-king-19910920 |archive-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref>
[[John Simon (critic)|John Simon]] of the ''[[National Review]]'' described ''The Fisher King'' as "one of the most nonsensical, pretentious, mawkishly cloying movies I ever had to wretch[''sic''] through".<ref>{{cite book |title=John Simon on Film: Criticism
Following Robin Williams's death, a reappraisal of the film on [[RogerEbert.com]] stated that "no Williams film can hit harder — or be so fully consoling in such heartbreaking circumstances — than ''The Fisher King''", in which his character "gradually simmers to a boil of bristling insecurities, terror and agonizing internalized pain".<ref name="auto" />
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