Apolonia, Apolonia
CAT&Docs | Release Date: January 12, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Paste MagazineSage DunlapJan 17, 2024
At the beginning of Apolonia, Apolonia, Glob proclaims her goal: To create an eternal portrait of her subject, one that evokes the paintings of kings. She accomplishes this feat, leaving a dazzling record of Sokol’s life that champions and carries on her legacy as an artist. Read full review
90
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonJan 11, 2024
Apolonia, Apolonia is beguiling as a portrait of women with ambition, but also bittersweet. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeDec 22, 2023
The artist’s charm is never more apparent than in the final section of Apolonia, Apolonia, in which we hear Glob and Apolonia’s phone conversations. Apolonia is no longer just a subject but a confidant. She has pulled not only Glob but us, too, into her orbit. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 14, 2023
Gazing upon great art often clears our minds, sharpens our thinking and invites new ideas in; in Apolonia, Apolonia, tracing the long-term push-pull of someone else’s artistic process appears to do the same for the woman behind the camera. Read full review
80
Screen DailyNeil YoungDec 14, 2023
Very much a collaborative affair between subject Apolonia Sokol and Danish filmmaker Lea Glob, it also functions as a snapshot of millennial creatives and their struggles to balance public and private lives amid external financial and psychological pressures. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyJan 12, 2024
The result is something deeply reflective about femininity, culture, commerce, friendship, sexuality and the various souls who dwell in the impossible intersection of it all. Read full review
60
The GuardianPhuong LeDec 14, 2023
As Sokol’s style matures, Glob’s direction also becomes visibly more assured. The meandering beginning in which the film-maker’s narration does a lot of the heavy lifting soon becomes more stylistically coherent. Read full review
50
IndieWireMarya E. GatesJan 16, 2024
While Glob took exception with the assessment that Apolonia’s personality was more interesting than her work, her surface level portrait of her as both an artist and as person ironically upholds that very statement. Read full review
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