Drama Rated R
“Stillness can be peaceful, but it can also be menacing.”
“Gondry refrains from indulging his imagination in favor of building a realistic emotional richness.”
Drama Rated NR
“…captures approaching adolescence for what it really is: an out-of-body experience.”
“…plays less like a snapshot of Europe wrestling with the realities of a migrant crisis and more like a fantasy about how Kaurismaki wishes every migrant’s story would play out.”
“…the two child performances are the emotional lynchpin of the movie.”
“…about the striving for and perceiving of something beyond what we understand as real.”
“…captures the blinkered experience of obtaining adoration we were not made to receive.”
“The visual lushness is so overpowering that it nearly comes across as clueless.”
“Gosling does enough stumbling and bumbling and falling from balconies (twice!) to earn the term Keatonesque.”
Drama Rated PG-13
“McGregor pulls off the trick of making two iconic figures register as flesh-and-blood characters.”
