Slant Magazine by James Lattimer

It gently and often imperceptibly shifts between past and present, legend and modernity, wakefulness and reverie.

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

It is so lived-in and authentic in its real-world detail, and so enigmatic and mysterious in its diversions and sidelong glances, that it's difficult not to see it as overridingly personal, not just to the director but to the viewer. It's a true act of the most optimistic communication and communion.

The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

The mood Mr. Weerasethakul conjures is all the more extraordinary when you consider that the movie’s premise, in the hands of almost any other director, would be used to build some kind of horror movie.

RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley

The fantastical and surreal are presented with unshowy practicality. It's magical realism mixed with kitchen-sink drama, seasoned by a haunting sense of history as a sentient entity.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Julia Cooper

The mesmerizing and lingeringly paced Cemetery of Splendour, picks up where Freud left off.

Variety by Justin Chang

While Cemetery of Splendor is unabashedly a work of slow cinema, the oft-hurled pejorative of “difficult” seems a particularly poor fit for a film whose unforced lyricism could scarcely be more graceful or inviting.

Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

As is his custom, Weerasethakul addresses his nation's martial history with the lightest of touches.

Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

Each scene, beneath its surface calm, throbs with longing, dislocation and intricately woven layers of time.

The Film Stage

[Joe's] latest film is as enveloping as anything he’s ever made: a work that’s as darkly comic on subjects as specific as hospital regulation as it is sober-minded about perils as universal as comfortable living, one open to the possibilities of spiritual awakening while confronting us with questions of belief.

The Film Stage by Nick Newman

[Joe's] latest film is as enveloping as anything he’s ever made: a work that’s as darkly comic on subjects as specific as hospital regulation as it is sober-minded about perils as universal as comfortable living, one open to the possibilities of spiritual awakening while confronting us with questions of belief.

Time Out by David Ehrlich

Delicately placed on a sonic bedrock of chirping birds and distant traffic, Cemetery of Splendour is a whisper of a film that can only cast its spell if you let your breathing slow and give yourself over to the urgency of its spectral dimension.

The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer

Past lives and ancient ancestors are evoked through conversations that are both cryptic and oddly matter-of-fact, in a work that has the realistic vibe of a documentary but the unearthly qualities of a sustained reverie.

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

This is the same wondrous journey on which Apichatpong sends his audience: inwards and downwards, to a place where the simplest rhythms of everyday life become hallowed and mythic.

Screen Daily by Allan Hunter

Maintaining his fondness for long, contemplative shots, Weerasethakul creates a deceptively serene sense of storytelling, with gentle grace notes of wry humour.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is such a strange film in its way, stranger still if you are not accustomed to Weerasethakul’s work, and it needs a real investment of attention. But there is something sublime in it.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

For the occasional lapse...there is often a striking image or sly moment of humour to take away and overall, the film rewards persistence.