Eternity
A24 | Release Date: November 26, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
20
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloNov 26, 2025
David Freyne’s charming afterlife comedy “Eternity” takes a simple premise of a person forced to choose between two prospective suitors and elaborates the concept with clever world-building and emotional relationship dynamics. Read full review
88
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 25, 2025
It’s quirky, a little unpredictable, and never feels like warmed-over leftovers. There’s a bite to things – an edginess that doesn’t cut too deeply but keeps the sentimentality in check. One of the year’s most pleasant surprises. Read full review
83
The Film MavenKristen LopezNov 6, 2025
Eternity is a sweet little slice of life (and death) story with wonderful performances from Olsen, Teller and Turner. If the existential dread is getting you down of late this is a perfect story to quell it for the moment. Read full review
83
TheWrapMatthew CreithSep 8, 2025
On its face, Eternity is a sweet, spiritual and humorously convoluted take on what dreams may come in The Great Beyond, but it stays true to its premise with outstanding comic range from its cast. Read full review
80
EmpireIana MurrayDec 5, 2025
It may be a tad predictable, but Eternity skirts the trappings of its romcom tropes by elevating the love triangle to a riveting existential quandary. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeDec 3, 2025
The three leads demonstrate absolute belief in romantic absolutes as we drift towards a class of sob-heavy denouement Hollywood now rarely attempts. The Irish director’s best film yet. Read full review
80
LooperAudrey FoxSep 16, 2025
It's difficult not to fall in love with all of the characters in the film, and its breezy sense of humor makes Eternity a veritable crowdpleaser. Read full review
80
IGNCarlos MoralesSep 10, 2025
Eternity is a bizarre but heartfelt dramedy that balances a wacky vision of the afterlife with strong performances and direction. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonSep 8, 2025
The premise is so cute it’s surprising a movie hasn’t done it already. Eternity mines its compelling conceit for both peppery comedy and bleary sentiment. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 8, 2025
Snappy, sweet, and moving, this crowd-pleasing winner starring Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner continues the genre’s much-needed revitalization. Read full review
75
The Associated PressLindsey BahrNov 24, 2025
Apparently even death is no respite from earthly puzzles like the love triangle. Sure it’s messy and confusing for those involved but it’s also one of the great storytelling setups for a screwball comedy. And this particular film, imaginative and shrewdly whimsical with an utterly charming cast, delivers on the promise. Lucky us. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureEma SasicSep 9, 2025
A fantastic cast brings a soulful and endearing story to life with plenty of gags and creative world-building in between. Read full review
70
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 9, 2025
Eternity is a cute rom-com with a great cast, but it could've used more exploration of its afterlife. Read full review
63
Washington PostSonia RaoNov 26, 2025
Eternity might start out strong, but its plot eventually runs out of steam. Read full review
60
Time OutOlly RichardsDec 4, 2025
A delightful premise never fully comes to life in this sweet romcom, which is a real shame because it gets off to such a strong start. Read full review
60
The Travers TakePeter TraversNov 29, 2025
A charming Elizabeth Olsen must choose between two men in the afterlife. The trouble with this often-beguiling romp is that it takes an eternity to wrap up. Too bad no one ever learns how to quit while they’re ahead. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 26, 2025
As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearNov 25, 2025
Hard to ding something for wanting to be a cult rom-com so badly, especially when it’s so well-acted. Read full review
60
The RevealKeith PhippsNov 14, 2025
One of the film’s greatest strengths is its refusal to oversimplify the matter and a script that allows Turner, Teller, and Olsen to make their characters more than mere type Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 11, 2025
I admired a great deal here, though, especially Freyne’s attempt to transport us back to a cinema landscape before it was dulled down by streaming. That’s an afterlife I would happily choose. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 9, 2025
Eternity should have been 90 minutes long, with more energy and more crackpot invention than it has at nearly two hours. It’s a bauble that tries to stretch itself into a boutique dream. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 8, 2025
Eternity isn’t a bad rom-com; it’s charming and wildly entertaining for the most part, but by skirting a conventional narrative to be more creative, the story loses some of its effectiveness in the process. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 8, 2025
Eternity does what it can to leverage its heady concept into a heart-stirring tale of love and longing, but the world-building — or lack thereof — invariably gets in the way of the emotion that Freyne is hoping to generate from it. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriDec 18, 2025
One of the pleasures of afterlife movies is the leaps taken visually, but Eternity looks hopelessly mundane. Still, the actors are game, and that’s half the battle. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTim GriersonNov 26, 2025
By sidestepping the sharper, tougher questions about matters of the heart, the film still plays it too safe. Freyne may love all three characters, but what he doesn’t do is make his audience care deeply enough about which of them will get their happy ending—and which one won’t. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkNov 26, 2025
The film is very old-fashioned in its thinking and approach to fantastical romance, despite some occasional, vague allusions to the fact that it is, still, a 2025 film. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 24, 2025
It all becomes silly, monotonous and boring. Maybe not as monotonous as being cast out into void, but boring enough to put you to sleep. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonNov 24, 2025
I’ve said this a million times before, so it will sound familiar: All a rom-com needs to work is characters you want to see end up together. “Eternity” fails this test big time. Read full review
50
The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsSep 11, 2025
It runs pretty thin pretty quickly, a monotonous circle of arguing, indecision, concerned looks, and anxiety that stalls out the whimsy and momentum and all unique aesthetic possibilities of Freyne’s under-explored setting. Read full review
50
Screen DailyRobert DanielsSep 8, 2025
Unfortunately, much like the light at the end of the tunnel, the thinness of this situational comedy, which continues to hit the same jokes with diminishing returns, becomes glaringly obvious. Read full review
42
Original-CinChris KnightDec 1, 2025
It’s a clever conceit but bungled in the delivery. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 12, 2025
It has a perky winsomeness: there are jokes, not all of them morbid, about being dead. There are tear-jerking scenes that require a viewer to surrender. I struggled to do so. Funnily enough, Eternity drags.
40
The TimesKevin MaherDec 12, 2025
Eternity might have worked if the three leads conveyed anything beyond jaded inertia in each other’s company. They are supposed to be consumed by a love so passionate it propels them into adventures beyond the grave. They look, instead, as if they could barely get out of their trailers. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 26, 2025
Sappy and silly, Eternity made me thank heaven for Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early as the quick-witted coordinators tasked with guiding our threesome to perpetual bliss. They’re a comic delight, and they aerate a movie that’s most touching when it’s least frantic. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 12, 2025
There is a hint of pathos, here and there. And Olsen, more interesting than amusing in this role, tries her best to wring emotion out of this bummer/bauble of a movie. She can’t, and Teller and Turner — who have some comic chemistry together — have no more luck transcending this lavish setting in search of a better story. Read full review
38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNov 26, 2025
It’s Olsen’s emotional frailty that helps pump up a bad movie into a mediocre one. Read full review
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