Past Lives Movie Reviews

Feature Film | 2023 | UA | Drama, Romantic

Critics:

4.4

Critics

Total Reviews: 8

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Review by: Peter Travers - ABC News

If you don't wipe away a tear at the end, get your vitals checked. "Past Lives," the finest film this year by a first-time director, will take a piece out of you.
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Review by: Gayle Sequeira - Film Companion

Past Lives' depictions of loneliness are so acute that it ceases to matter which versions of ourselves we move on from, only that there have been people to share them with. To be known at all is a privilege.
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Review by: Oliver Jones - Observer

After a triumphant debut at Sundance last January, this jaw-droppingly assured first effort from writer-director Celine Song matches the hype and transcends it.
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Review by: Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune

It’s a rare movie that settles, quietly, into some part of your own experiences and memories without a speck of narrative contrivance gumming up your response to the story on the screen.
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Review by: Peter Rainer - The Christian Science Monitor

Song has said the film is semiautobiographical, and it shows. Although at times technically wayward and dramatically diffuse, there is not a moment in it that does not bear the personal stamp of a lived-in connection.
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Review by: Benjamin Lee - The Guardian

Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with a beautiful, aching story about childhood sweethearts reconnecting.
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Review by: Monica Castillo - Roger Ebert's website

“Past Lives” so confidently belongs to Song—the way she envelopes the settings around her characters, how carefully she constructs their relationship over the years, and how quickly she returns that excited feeling to their conversations after years of silence.
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Review by: Anthony Lane - The New Yorker

This story of childhood friends from Seoul who reunite as adults in New York is less a love story than a meditation on transplantation and transience.
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