80
Again, Muntean and his script collaborators offer exceptionally naturalistic dialogue.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The strength of Tuesday, After Christmas, Mr. Muntean's fourth feature, lies in its rigorous, artful and humane fidelity to quotidian circumstance.
100
More broadly this is a resonant, vivid and finally heartbreaking tale about the universal difficulty of marriage and the endless self-delusion of the human condition, driven by a trio of amazing dramatic performances.
80
Director Radu Muntean has pulled off the near-impossible, turning each scene (captured in capacious long takes) into arias of generosity for his actors.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Natasha Senjanovic
The dissected minutiae of this adultery drama unfortunately doesn't add up to a very original or moving whole.
40
Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
Unrelentingly mundane, as if made with the sole purpose of draining the topic of adultery of any prurient interest.
88
Slant Magazine by Nick Schager
At first glance, Tuesday, After Christmas seems, in both form and content, only a modestly ambitious endeavor. Yet the singular attention with which it carries out its aims-and the rigorous success it ultimately attains-is nonetheless unsparing, and bracing.
91
More about well-observed moments of everyday life than it is about heightened melodrama.
40
Boxoffice Magazine by Richard Mowe
Rather than take a broad-brush approach director Muntean boggs us down in the detail of an adulterous affair. There are some similarities with his previous outing "Boogie" in that the main character is a man having a premature mid-life crisis.
75
They breathe originality into an oft-told story.