Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us.

Washington Post by Ann Hornaday

Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen. For such a fully realized portrait to be created by a 28-year-old first-time director is even more remarkable.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

For a movie about the importance of memory, Away From Her is appropriately sophisticated in its treatment of time. Polley has broken the chronological story into three sections of unequal length and woven them together, approximating our own mercurial journeys through the past.

San Francisco Chronicle by Ruthe Stein

To say it is about a debilitating disease is as reductive as saying "Little Miss Sunshine" is about a beauty pageant. Both are intimate stories of family ties that bind but sometimes also choke.

The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann

Extraordinary--delicate, seriously disturbing, and lovely.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Anyone who could read Munro’s original story and think they could make a film of it, and then make a great film, deserves a certain awe.

Village Voice

It's a precociously assured and mature work, at once humble and bold, that keeps faith with Munro's precise, graceful prose while tailoring its linear progression into shapely cinematic form.

Village Voice by Ella Taylor

It's a precociously assured and mature work, at once humble and bold, that keeps faith with Munro's precise, graceful prose while tailoring its linear progression into shapely cinematic form.

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

Poignant, wise and unafraid -- just the sort of film for a young person, or any person, for that matter, to make.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

I can't remember the last time the movies yielded up a love story so painful, so tender and so true.

The New Yorker by David Denby

The movie, Polley's feature début, is a small-scale triumph that could herald a great career.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

All the acting is first-rate -- Dukakis gives major dimensions to a supporting role. And Christie, a Sixties screen goddess in "Darling" and "Doctor Zhivago," shows that her spirit and grace are eternal. She's a beauty. So is the movie.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Given the subject, the movie is too romanticized, and Christie's eyes remain too sharp here to convincingly convey someone whose memory is fast slipping away. Much of it is powerful anyway.

Film Threat

Julie Christie gives a fabulous performance of mysterious, unclear depth as Fiona.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Away From Her is a twilight-of-life love story, one that harshly demolishes our romantic notions of love and loyalty, then replaces them with something deeper and, finally, more consoling.

Variety by Dennis Harvey

What Away From Her achieves is quite admirable-- a low-key, intelligent setting for performances marked by those same qualities.

The Hollywood Reporter

The pain of watching a spouse succumb to Alzheimer's is given a particularly deep and sensitive treatment in Away From Her.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

Polley captures the brisk, cheerful fascism of nursing-home existence with merciless clarity; if you've visited a parent or grandparent in one of those places, you may want to laugh and cry in the same moment.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Munro's stark lily needed none of this gilding.

Empire by Olly Richards

It's Sarah Polley through and through: slightly too glum for its own good, but reeking of quality and feeling.