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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungCotillard’s performance is luminous throughout, enriching the willful heroine with the depth of a single obsession.
- 70Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterThe ingredients of an old-fashioned romantic weepie are given class and conviction by director Nicole Garcia whose elegant restraint helps to ground the more fanciful elements in some sense of reality. Her approach also makes the eleventh hour revelations easier to swallow.
- 60Time Out LondonGeoff AndrewTime Out LondonGeoff AndrewThe result, despite an uncertain start, is in the end a surprisingly intriguing and affecting movie.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerStill, the thing is almost watchable until a ridiculous reveal spoils whatever chances this film had at succeeding.
- 40The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesThe film takes on Gabrielle’s listlessness, slumps into an opiated fug. The malady is mysterious and not easily treatable. It just exhausts you. It transforms from a story about release to just another jail. At times it felt like there was no escape.
- 40VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangOf course, Cotillard is your first call if you want an actress to suffer exquisitely, but the issue is her character Gabrielle is essentially a nightmare of self-involvement, whose emotional torture is very difficult to get invested in since she herself has already bought all the shares.
- 40The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinFrom the Land of the Moon is a story about how good it feels to feel very, very bad – and how a life lived in rapturous misery is somehow more valuable than mild domestic contentment. That might ring truer if Garcia wasn’t working in such a starchy register.
- 25The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorIt is a weepy Sunday matinee melodrama of the most run-of-the-mill variety, full of pretty people in pretty clothes feeling Big Emotions.
- 25Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film is so humorless and in love with its own obviousness that it grows laughable.
- 16The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicYour time would be better spent staring at a postcard for two hours. No, not even the presence of the usually magnetic Marion Cotillard will stave off the boredom of Garcia and Jacques Fieschi‘s screenplay.