Original-Cin by Liam Lacey

Evil Does Not Exist, the new film from Drive My Car director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, is a slow-burning wonder, an eco-fable of meditative beauty and menace, down-to-earth realism, and mythic resonances.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

It’s far rarer when a movie, as this one does, speaks to everyday life and to the beauty of a world that we neglect even in the face of its calamitous loss.

The A.V. Club by Murtada Elfadl

Hamaguchi presents an uncomplicated tale about contemporary issues—corporate greed, climate change—packed with so many complex narrative beats that it plays like a dense 19th century novel. It’s simple, but it explains life itself.

Screen Daily by Lee Marshall

It is an absorbing film of quiet power.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

However you choose to interpret it, Evil Does Not Exist lingers, magnificently and furiously.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Bilge Ebiri

In its own discreet, modest way, Evil Does Not Exist leaves us with a haunting sense of personal and ecological apocalypse.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

After so fruitful a collaboration on “Drive My Car,” Hamaguchi and Ishibashi may have topped themselves with something even more compelling.

TheWrap by William Bibbiani

Ryusuke Hamaguchi is an expert at crafting films that subtly enthrall our minds, and this is just more proof.

The Daily Beast by Nick Schager

A masterful film that invites contemplation and, in return, delivers lyrical beauty, haunting mystery, and more than a bit of unexpected terror.

Little White Lies by Xuanlin Tham

So carefully and empathetically constructed – even towards its “villains” – that it feels miles away from didacticism, this shapeshifting ecological tale becomes a yearning rumination on the alienations of modern life, and the quietly violent seams where things in this world are changing and dying rapidly while we lack the language to arrive at the same destination, no matter how much people say they’re listening.