81
Metascore
43 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100CineVuePatrick GambleCineVuePatrick GambleIt's how the film handles grief and alienation which makes Marina's story so compelling.
- 100It may be a timely film, but it is its timelessness, as well as its depths of compassion, that qualify it as a great one.
- 100The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyShocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vision.
- 91The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangThe superb Vega’s steady, liquid, fathomless gaze is so direct that we come to understand that behind it, behind the barricade of defenses she’s built up against an unfriendly world, she is no enigma at all: she is completely known to herself.
- 83IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWhile the storytelling grows frustratingly elliptical, Lelio so desperate to constrain the drama that he resorts to removing helpful pieces of it, the scenes that remain are succinct and evocative.
- 75The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAt its most compelling as a conventional character study of an unconventional female lead.
- 70VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeVega’s tough, expressive, subtly anguished performance deserves so much more than political praise. It’s a multi-layered, emotionally polymorphous feat of acting, nurtured with pitch-perfect sensitivity by her director, who maintains complete candor on Marina’s condition without pushing her anywhere she wouldn’t herself go.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNew York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaI just wish Vega and Lelio let us in a little more to see her as an individual, aside from the hostility she encounters.