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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "The tight focus on them, them, them can make it feel more like an acting exercise than a complete film, but what a master class in performance it is." (Read the full review...) 162 words, 12/30/10 Mary Pols, Time: VERY GOOD "...ruefully reminds you of what it's like to fall in and out of love.... a solemn, beautifully acted film..." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 12/20/10 David Germain, Associated Press: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...agonizing to watch yet relentlessly compelling, even illuminating... a film that should be seen by as many people as possible." (Read the full review...) 766 words, 12/28/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...brilliant, devastatingly honest... Gosling and Williams pull and stretch in vivid, career-best performances that demand Oscar recognition." (Read the full review...) 71 words, 12/30/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...stings so exquisitely.... lushly touching and gorgeously told." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 12/31/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Whether or not the dumb NC-17 rating sticks to this wrenching story of a marriage that rides a roller coaster for six tumultuous years, it is not to be missed." (Read the full review...) 141 words, 12/17/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Gosling and Williams have the most palpable chemistry of any screen couple this year, never striking a false note... beautifully mesmerizing..." (Read the full review...) 694 words, 12/29/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Derek Cianfrance, the film's writer and director, observes with great exactitude the birth and decay of a relationship. This film is alive in its details." (Read the full review...) 776 words, 01/06/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...leaves an aftertaste that, although not bitter, is too strong to be easily washed away. That's the mark of a worthwhile motion picture." (Read the full review...) 860 words, 01/15/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Mr. Cianfrance's ingenious chronological gimmick, coupled with his anxious, clumsy plotting, leaves Ms. Williams and Mr. Gosling without enough oxygen to burst into breathing, loving life." (Read the full review...) 1,038 words, 12/29/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...beautifully acted and emotionally honest... my choice for best movie of the year.... the perfect antidote to Hollywood's usual empty-souled, assembly-line romances." (Read the full review...) 347 words, 12/29/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...the conflict is as much about social class as love, and in doing so the film is more penetrating and salient than it probably set out to be.... extraordinary..." (Read the full review...) 926 words, 12/29/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...small but shattering... observes relationship dynamics at a molecular level, welling with as much understanding as Ingmar Bergman's 'Scenes from a Marriage.' " (Read the full review...) 644 words, 12/29/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...plays like an acting exercise... Gosling seems to be pulling from an impressive bag of performance tricks, Williams from a deeper well, drawn from life." (Read the full review...) 689 words, 01/07/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "...one of the saddest movies you will ever see.... has a rare emotional intensity. There is no way to prepare for its final frames, inevitable as they are." (Read the full review...) 288 words, 01/14/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "...a very rough ride with the shock absorbers removed.... not an arm's-length experience.... flashbacks, in context, elicit marvelously complex emotions..." (Read the full review...) 1,005 words, 12/27/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Derek Cianfrance, the film's writer and director, observes with great exactitude the birth and decay of a relationship. This film is alive in its details." (Read the full review...) 776 words, 01/06/11 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...frustratingly surface-bound..." (Read the full review...) 894 words, 12/29/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Williams and Gosling work shopped their roles, moving in together for a spell to feel like a real couple. They paradoxically are a great pair, which makes the attrition of their attraction all the more painful to watch." (Read the full review...) 722 words, 01/07/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...two superb actors etch an unflinching portrait of a young marriage doomed never to grow old." (Read the full review...) 816 words, 01/07/11 Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Its tidy time-jumping structure doesn't do justice to the messiness of these characters' lives... Still, it's a beautiful romance filled with so many intimate and wistful moments..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 01/06/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an astonishing debut.... Derek Cianfrance is a filmmaker alive to the rough beauty of even the deepest pain." (Read the full review...) 596 words, 01/07/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...this modern-day kitchen sink drama is ultimately too painful, too labored, to care much about at all." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 10/15/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...extraordinary and beautiful... One of the saddest and best films of the past year..." (Read the full review...) 859 words, 01/14/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "A film made notorious because of a needless ratings dust-up over its not-all-that sex scenes... well-acted, generally engrossing..." (Read the full review...) 612 words, 12/29/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Bright-eyed youth and bedraggled adulthood alternate in a sad spectacle beautifully and sensitively portrayed." (Read the full review...) 486 words, 01/14/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Entertainment? Escape? Catharsis? All three, in varying combinations?" (Read the full review...) 558 words, 01/14/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...as the film makes its way to the end of its second hour, it becomes an acutely stylized, slow-motion marital accident. You either want to call AAA or roll your eyes." (Read the full review...) 800 words, 01/07/11 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "There's a beauty, a rhythm, and a subtle sense of discovery... a magical experience." (Read the full review...) 371 words, 01/14/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Everything feels utterly natural, from the frank (but not particularly explicit) sex scenes to the sweetly relaxed presence of 6-year-old Faith Wladyka as the couple's young daughter..." (Read the full review...) 436 words, 01/07/11 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: MODERATE (cg) "...wants to be an unflinching, Bergman-esque chronicle... it wallows in misery so much that the two-hour experience ends up being about as much fun as a real divorce." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 01/14/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...these scenes from a marriage are crafted with such attention to detail and overarching honesty that it touches the heart." (Read the full review...) 350 words, 01/14/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a reminder that well-measured and expertly acted pain is as thrilling to watch as 3-D spectacle.... feels real... an uncommonly fine movie." (Read the full review...) 597 words, 01/27/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...not an easy movie, but it is a powerful, unforgettable experience.... Gosling and Williams are frighteningly good -- appealing, pained, raw and consumed." (Read the full review...) 328 words, 01/14/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Derek Cianfrance's insightful, heartrending exploration of a relationship, shows us the rapturous beginning and bitter, hurtful end of the relationship of a married couple..." (Read the full review...) 630 words, 01/14/11
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...frustratingly surface-bound..." (Read the full review...) 894 words, 12/29/10 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Gosling and Williams are absolutely flawless.... this kind of intimacy will naturally turn some people off. For the rest of us, it's simply powerful filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 606 words, 12/28/10 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Cianfrance is a major new talent in the John Cassavetes mold.... Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams deliver the most nakedly courageous performances of 2010." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 01/06/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...fearless candor and extreme emotional intensity should be a source of pride for everyone involved in this remarkable, utterly wrenching film." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 12/28/10 Paul Brunick, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...viscerally raw and lyrically stylized reverie for first love lost.... yes, devastatingly sad.... it works beautifully." (Read the full review...) 647 words, 12/27/10 Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Its tidy time-jumping structure doesn't do justice to the messiness of these characters' lives... Still, it's a beautiful romance filled with so many intimate and wistful moments..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 01/06/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the film grinds its way to a resolution that offers little catharsis, despite the depth and commitment of Gosling and Williams to their roles." (Read the full review...) 713 words, 01/07/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a powerful film... can be crushing in its portrayal of how two people who truly do love each other come to lacerate and eventually devastate each other." (Read the full review...) 532 words, 12/31/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Mr. Cianfrance's ingenious chronological gimmick, coupled with his anxious, clumsy plotting, leaves Ms. Williams and Mr. Gosling without enough oxygen to burst into breathing, loving life." (Read the full review...) 1,038 words, 12/29/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: OUTSTANDING "Nothing out of the ordinary happens, and that, together with the vital, untrammelled performances of the two leading actors, is the root of its power.... I saw it months ago, and I can't forget it..." (Read the full review...) 1,193 words, 12/27/10 David Edelstein, NPR Fresh Air: VERY GOOD "...its oppressive monotony evokes the dissolution of a marriage shockingly well.... the bad vibes just keep rippling." (Listen to the full review...) 377 seconds, 01/07/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...the conflict is as much about social class as love, and in doing so the film is more penetrating and salient than it probably set out to be.... extraordinary..." (Read the full review...) 926 words, 12/29/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: OUTSTANDING "...isn't perfect: There are a few narrative details that feel contrived, a little pat.... [but] it features sensational performances by both leads.... a marvel of a movie..." (Read the full review...) 1,057 words, 12/31/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "An intimate, gorgeous and wrenching portrait... compassionate, nuanced performances that are utterly free of condescension or sentimentality." (Read the full review...) 804 words, 12/28/10
Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...a meaty, strongly realized dramatic work of considerable accomplishment.... Gosling and Williams interact beautifully and without a false note..." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 01/26/10 Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "...we're sick of this couple long before the film is over... Fortunately, the performances are fleshed out and telling." (Read the full review...) 396 words, 01/25/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...the conflict is as much about social class as love, and in doing so the film is more penetrating and salient than it probably set out to be.... extraordinary..." (Read the full review...) 926 words, 12/29/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...poignantly detailed and emotionally touching, about the break-up of a marriage... the film is basically plotless, it's all about the multi-shaded characterizations and performances." (Read the full review...) 463 words, 10/28/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Mr. Cianfrance's ingenious chronological gimmick, coupled with his anxious, clumsy plotting, leaves Ms. Williams and Mr. Gosling without enough oxygen to burst into breathing, loving life." (Read the full review...) 1,038 words, 12/29/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a powerful film... can be crushing in its portrayal of how two people who truly do love each other come to lacerate and eventually devastate each other." (Read the full review...) 532 words, 12/31/10
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