The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Beautiful and sensitive to character but gripping when it needs to be.

Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh

Rozema has a careful but unflinching eye when it comes to presenting the physical and emotional traumas the sisters experience. Even when some of the events escalate to operatic, nearly mystical levels, the direction feels assured and solidly rooted.

Village Voice by April Wolfe

This isn’t torture-porn dystopia; it’s a singular, honest, heartfelt portrait of sisterly devotion at the end of the world

The Playlist

The film’s depiction of societal breakdown remains firmly planted in the realm of real human emotion, testing the resolve of two young women and unearthing awe-inspiring reserves of strength and tenderness in the process.

New York Post by Sara Stewart

Wood and Page generate a believable, prickly sibling closeness in Rozema’s unhurried but harrowing micro-portrait of how easily civilization could crumble.

Observer

In the hands of these two talented and well-matched actors, Into the Forest proves that this bond is powerful enough to sustain us.

The Playlist by Charles Bramesco

The film’s depiction of societal breakdown remains firmly planted in the realm of real human emotion, testing the resolve of two young women and unearthing awe-inspiring reserves of strength and tenderness in the process.

Observer by Oliver Jones

In the hands of these two talented and well-matched actors, Into the Forest proves that this bond is powerful enough to sustain us.

The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

The journey is nuanced and subtle, though, just like its science-fiction premise. So don’t expect a thrill a minute.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Kate Taylor

Both Page and Wood hand in tough yet delicate performances as, over the course of a year, adversity shapes their characters.

RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski

The one major problem with Into the Forest, the one that keeps it from making that final leap of good movie to a potentially great one, is that the final third is just not quite as strong as the stuff that precedes it.

Screen Daily by David D'Arcy

It’s an inspiring story, acted with heart and grit by Paige and Wood, and film directed with adroitness by Rozema in a ruin of a set in the woods.

Screen International by David D'Arcy

It’s an inspiring story, acted with heart and grit by Paige and Wood, and film directed with adroitness by Rozema in a ruin of a set in the woods.

Consequence by Randall Colburn

At its core, it’s a simple and triumphant tale of sisterhood, but with so much ladled on top of it it begins to feel as though it’s grasping for a grandeur it doesn’t need. Sometimes, even the most intense emotions can benefit from a light touch.

The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Indeed, there are stretches of Into The Forest during which one could momentarily forget that it’s a survivalist tale at all… or even that it’s taking place in the middle of nowhere, for that matter. The essential becomes irrelevant.

Consequence of Sound by Randall Colburn

At its core, it’s a simple and triumphant tale of sisterhood, but with so much ladled on top of it it begins to feel as though it’s grasping for a grandeur it doesn’t need. Sometimes, even the most intense emotions can benefit from a light touch.

Variety by Scott Tobias

Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are both superb in the lead roles, but Rozema’s emphasis on the primacy of family and nature exposes a deficit of visual and narrative imagination.

The Guardian by Nigel M Smith

Patricia Rozema’s drama doesn’t burrow deep into its end of world scenario.

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

Essentially a post-apocalyptic telenovela, it sanitizes the concept of sisterhood, and even womanhood.