Of an Age
Focus Features | Release Date: February 17, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshFeb 15, 2023
Impeccably written and beautifully performed by Anton and Green, Of an Age is a profoundly moving film about the beauty and the horror of what it means to be seen for the first time, to love for the first time, and how the past and future are constantly informing each other. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisFeb 14, 2023
Nothing about Of an Age seems forced. The film delicately embraces grand sentiments without ever being sentimental. And throughout the journey, we can’t help but be enthralled. Read full review
90
VarietyManuel BetancourtJan 21, 2023
Equal parts wistful and sensual, vivid and gentle, Stolevski has gifted us with a swoon-worthy romantic drama that looks at that first blushing crush not as an ephemera in need of being remembered but as a living memory that can pulsate and ache precisely because it’s never left you. Read full review
83
The PlaylistLena WilsonFeb 17, 2023
This is a sweeping, lived-in romance that is as resonant as it is precise. Read full review
83
IndieWireJude DryFeb 15, 2023
While Of an Age leans a little heavily toward sentimentality at times, a sharp wit and a few wild shifts in tone keep things afloat. Read full review
80
The GuardianMichael SunJan 31, 2023
In other hands, Of an Age could have been gimmicky or indulgent but Stolevski imbues his characters with such lived-in specificity that we can’t help but be swept away. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganFeb 16, 2023
While the film’s ending feels a bit abrupt and cheesy, Of an Age boasts phenomenal performances and a salient (if somber) central truth. Read full review
75
ColliderChase HutchinsonFeb 17, 2023
There will always be much to the film that is too distant, but the moments where Stolevski pulls us in closer make its portrait of passion resonate where it counts. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRichard Scott LarsonFeb 17, 2023
The ambivalence with which the film treats its main character’s revelation proves rich with complication and offers a new intervention into a genre we thought we’d fully internalized. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonFeb 15, 2023
Of an Age successfully captures the fear that the object of one’s queer affection may be straight and unwilling to reciprocate. Read full review
70
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiFeb 17, 2023
The film is earnest and full of yearning and intimacy, elevated by the performances of its lead actors who, even in the film’s most abrupt moments, have so much chemistry to keep audiences watching. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisFeb 15, 2023
Missed opportunity and bad timing inform the romantic interlude in Of an Age in a way many of us have experienced at least once. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireFeb 17, 2023
While Of an Age offers plenty of moody, melancholy atmosphere, it lacks the kind of characterization that would make this story truly devastating. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanFeb 15, 2023
Anton conveys a deep well of unrequited longing that is so powerful, it doesn’t really need storytelling gimmicks. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 22, 2023
Stolevski’s over-reliance on close-ups gives us detailed maps of each man’s dermatology, but tends to wash away the extra impact we’d feel about bigger moments of connection. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)C.J. PrinceFeb 18, 2023
Call the film sensitive or tender all you want, but one thing it doesn’t have is nuance Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 9, 2023
The movie’s greater, intractable problem, though, is that Stolevski has burdened his characters with such obvious narrative instrumentality — Kol is the sensitive naïf while Adam is the appealing, gentle exemplar of an authentic life — that the two simply never come to life as people, either as individuals or as a couple. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicKaely MonahanFeb 16, 2023
To be fair, both Anton and Green do a fair job of giving Kol and Adam believability. But do we really need another tragic period gay love story? How about yes, but do it better. Read full review
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