Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Troell, at 78, continues to turn out films that will last for as long as there are movies. No wonder he feels such a deep connection to Maria in Everlasting Moments. The film is one hero's salute to another.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

It is a great story of love and hope, told tenderly and without any great striving for effect.

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

As magical as it is realistic.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey

A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White

Everlasting Moments both is a tribute to Larsson -- a relative of the director's wife, Jan (author of the original story) -- and a love letter to the art of photography.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

This exquisite film by the Swedish master Jan Troell is about seeing clearly, and fearlessly. It's also about subdued passion, the birth of an artist and a woman's struggle to live her own life.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Artistically on a plane with or near the vet filmmaker's best work, this period drama about a woman slowly discovering her metier is an artisanal creation par excellence.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Troell’s entrancingly beautiful Everlasting Moments uses surfaces--light, texture, faces--to hint at another world, a shadow realm.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Quiet, observant, and intensely moving whenever Heiskanen is on screen, and it has a valedictory sweep that feels like a summing up.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The result is an experience that, even as it feels a bit familiar, is nonetheless engrossing and satisfying.

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

An affecting film that manages to find glimmers of beauty in the encroaching bleakness, and coaxing richly dimensional performances which, like Maria's photographs, transcend the conventionally black and white.

TV Guide Magazine

On a narrative level, Troell seems to occasionally take on more than he can handle; from time to time he leans toward an ensemble approach, with multiple, intersecting stories, but the film lacks the length to sustain this, so we are left with fragments of substories that never fully blossom.

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

Heiskanen plays her layers beautifully, alternately revealing a talented artist stymied by poverty and marital problems, and a woman fiercely devoted to family first.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

There's something old-fashioned about Everlasting Moments. Although the shots are beautifully composed, they are classically represented. Both the filmmaking methods and the storytelling are uncomplicated.

Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall

In the films of Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land), ordinary lives assume epic dimensions, and this drama, based on the experiences of his wife's protofeminist grandmother, doesn't sugarcoat the hardships of the early 1900s.

New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

This unhurried, novelistic movie is worth looking into.

Village Voice

The movie satisfies for an hour, but never quite persuades that its subject is worth two.