IndieWire by Eric Kohn

With its persistent inventiveness and a lack of unearned sentimentality, the movie provides an antidote to a lot of lazily produced dramas about death, American or otherwise.

Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker

A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is concerned with nothing less than those hardy perennials: sex, death, and modernity. And coming of age a little too late.

Time Out by Eric Hynes

Attenberg shares with the Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" a weakness for overgrown innocence and deadpan perversity.

Empire by David Parkinson

Tsangari proves she's one of the freshest voices in European cinema with this offbeat character piece.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen

What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is.

San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego

The film is much enhanced by the performance of Labed, whose work capturing Marina's moods and contradictions won the best actress award at the 67th Venice Film Festival.

Variety

A captivating and vaguely disturbing experience.

The Hollywood Reporter

A Greek film with style and verve, writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari's second feature, Attenberg, is an offbeat coming-of-age tale.

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

The father's resignation to that fate is, on balance, the most compelling aspect of the film, and I will not readily forget the sight of him staring out over the town and mourning the long history of his homeland. "We built an industrial colony on top of sheep pens," he says, "and thought we were making a revolution." Maybe Attenberg is topical, after all.

Village Voice

While Tsangari may have borrowed Attenborough's "British phlegmatic tenderness," as she calls it, Attenberg is worlds away from a nature documentary.

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

A Greek film with style and verve, writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari's second feature, Attenberg, is an offbeat coming-of-age tale.

Variety by Boyd van Hoeij

A captivating and vaguely disturbing experience.

Village Voice by Anthony Kaufman

While Tsangari may have borrowed Attenborough's "British phlegmatic tenderness," as she calls it, Attenberg is worlds away from a nature documentary.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Stripped of all its random weirdness, Attenberg has the premise of a classic Yasujiro Ozu drama like "Late Spring," with its relationship between a widower approaching death and a devoted daughter who needs to leave the nest before it's too late.