Longing
Lionsgate | Release Date: June 7, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
1
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 24, 2024
This is a welcome and unusual movie, and Gere gives a compelling performance. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNell MinowJun 9, 2024
Gabizon is not making a documentary here or attempting any realism. “Longing” is a manifestation of how grief makes emotions overtake reason and the inherent resilience that sometimes requires you to come back to reality. That reality will be diminished but somehow make you whole. Read full review
67
Original-CinLiz BraunJun 6, 2024
Whatever magic that writer/director Savi Gabizon brought to the original seems to have evaporated for this second go. Read full review
40
Screen RantStephen HollandJun 7, 2024
While Longing was aiming for poignancy, it unfortunately landed on preposterous. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 6, 2024
A tonally bizarre and dramatically inert feature that is so detached from baseline human emotion it might as well be the fever dream of Artificial Intelligence, the new Canadian-Israeli film Longing is the most frustrating cinematic experience of the season. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 5, 2024
Whatever intrigues, insights and darkly comic charms writer-director Savi Gabizon gave audiences for his oddball Israeli dramedy “Longing” are mostly lost in translation in a Richard Gere remake he filmed in Canada. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 6, 2024
Instead of being drawn in by Daniel’s spiral, we observe it from a distance. The result is that Longing, presumably intended as a cathartic meditation on grief, simply feels absurd. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJun 6, 2024
Plausibility complaints always feel cheap, but Longing strains credulity well past the breaking point. Read full review
25
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiJun 5, 2024
It’s a film that’s full of love, but it’s an unhealthy love that’s detached from reality and the movie seems detached as well. It’s too maudlin to convey its own moral complexity and too foreboding to be sentimental. Read full review
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