“…suggests what it might have been like if Stanley Kubrick had directed a handful of Twilight Zone episodes.”

“Intimately aligned with its 11-year-old protagonist’s point of view…”

“…part anthropological study and part gangster drama.”

“…has the incongruous feel of a lovely sort of last rites.”

“There isn’t a boring frame in the film.”

“…plays with the filmmaking process in intriguing, fruitful ways.”

“A love triangle framed by a rectangle…”

“…has a welcoming weirdness that communicates in a subliminal way.”

“You can feel that O’Connor tension—the spiritual agony and the courage—all over Maya Hawke’s face.”

“…sits somewhere between being a seductive work of slow cinema and a more conventional, narrative-driven drama.”