“…teaches us to listen—to bear witness with our ears.”

“…doesn’t quite know where to go with its high concept.”

“Every scene between Portman and Moore shivers with a delicate sort of tension.”

“…takes the long way around to get to the movie it ultimately wants to be.”

“…about the hard, hard work of small acts of kindness.”

“A softer version of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster…”

“Sensory cinema of a particularly perceptive kind…”

“…one of Anderson’s most potently political films.”

“…an experiment in narration, but to a powerful emotional purpose.”

“…a wittily verbose master class on the way voice can be employed in fiction.”