50
Slant Magazine by Chris Barsanti
The film presents a world that too often feels as if it’s a product of the present day.
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What are critics saying?
91
The World to Come is at its sharpest when trying to articulate the alchemy that happens when theory and sensation collide with each other and morph into something new.
100
This is filmmaking as attuned to incremental shifts in light and landscape (Romania’s, in fact, gorgeously filling in for undeveloped upstate New York) as the ebb and flow of a character’s interior joy, written in a face unaccustomed to smiling.
80
An exquisitely rendered period tale, The World To Come is a slow-burning but ultimately rewarding drama of the heart.
83
Although arranged around a fulfilling, life-changing connection The World to Come is a deeply lonesome lovesong.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Jon Frosch
Much as I admired and was at times stirred by The World to Come, I'm convinced it would be a significantly stronger movie with 75 percent of the narration stripped away.
90
Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney
Scripted with heightened literary cadences by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard, the film is well crafted in every respect, and marks an acting career high for Katherine Waterston, as well as a fine showcase for the ever more impressive Vanessa Kirby.
100
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
It's as simultaneously chilling and warming as a slug of ice-cold vodka, and just as liable to make your mind swim and eyes prick.
75
The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor
It is a thoughtful, unquestionably moving piece of work with much to say about the inner lives of the women at the center, but it could have used another gear
80
The World to Come is a ravishingly beautiful love story set in 1850s America, with painterly visuals that nod to the work of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.