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Together

Together

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  • United Kingdom
  • 2021
  • · 87m

Director Stephen Daldry
Cast James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan, Samuel Logan
Genre Drama, Comedy

A husband and wife who are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

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89

Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones

For his part, director Stephen Daldry synthesizes the predominant beats of his film work, which has vacillated between feel-good awards bait (Billy Elliot) and feel-bad awards bait (The Hours, The Reader). Feel-good/feel-bad is Together to a T. It feels wonderful.

83

The Playlist by Christian Gallichio

Featuring pointedly jagged performances from James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, the only characters in film besides their son Arthur (Samuel Logan), who moves around the film, and frame’s, periphery, Together is an occasionally slight, but nevertheless riveting showcase for the actors and Kelly’s decidedly unsentimental script.

75

Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

You might well be tired of pandemic-inspired movies and series and I’m leaning in that direction myself, but I’m still recommending the blistering and razor-sharp two-hander Together largely on the strength of the searing and unfiltered and stunningly good performances by Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy.

75

Boston Globe by Mark Feeney

Visually as well as emotionally, there’s more energy here than in some action movies.

58

The A.V. Club by Jesse Hassenger

Only in fits and starts does Together capture the electricity of live performance.

58

The Film Stage by Dan Mecca

The fourth-wall breaks grow a bit tiresome and its final scene fails to build on the intensity of what comes just before, but leading turns and the topical setting prove memorable. How much you would like to be reminded of our current state of affairs is, of course, up to each and every viewer.

50

San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis

Both McAvoy and Horgan handle the rapid-fire dialogue with gusto, and for a while, their devastating banter is amusing. But eventually the effect begins to wear thin: These vocal diatribes need a more developed story to hang on.

40

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

That it’s bearable at all is entirely because of the superlative acting skills of James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as an unnamed couple forced to endure an extended London lockdown.

40

TheWrap by Robert Abele

In all too many ways, it’s a predictable, tiring wade as both a domestic tale and a pandemic yarn.

38

Slant Magazine by Wes Greene

Together’s dramaturgy perfectly, if unintentionally, underscores the suffocating nature of pandemic living.