Our Souls at Night
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 29, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 28, 2017
About half the scenes in Our Souls at Night consist of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford simply talking to one another. Those scenes are more exhilarating, more intoxicating and more memorable than many if not most gigantic action sequences in big-budget movies. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranSep 28, 2017
Made with care and conviction as it explores this unexpected relationship, "Our Souls at Night" understands both what changes in people as they age and what remains the same. It covers quite a bit of emotional territory, and it covers it well. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungSep 17, 2017
Both Redford and Fonda are charming, delicate and convincing as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, the couple who find each other at the tail end of their lives. They are directed with sophistication and without a drop of melodrama or sentimentality by Ritesh Batra Read full review
80
The GuardianXan BrooksSep 17, 2017
Our Souls at Night is your classic Hollywood weepie, so immaculately played that it confounds crass preconceptions. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattOct 4, 2017
The real draw is seeing these two legends together again. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaSep 29, 2017
The hormonal surges in Our Souls at Night aren’t quite the rollercoaster ride they are in those adolescent affairs. But this steady-as-it-goes approach to a senior snuggling has its ups and downs, too. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallSep 17, 2017
There’s an air of well-oiled, made-for-TV efficiency about the exercise that extends from Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra’s safe hand on the tiller to Stephen Goldblatt’s golden-light photography. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 17, 2017
It’s hard to deny that the small screen may be the most natural fit for Batra’s film, given its pleasantly mollified storytelling and blandly unassuming visual style. Read full review
70
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 17, 2017
There’s nothing particularly world-shaking about Our Souls at Night, but it’s a nice movie about nice people finding love. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 26, 2017
The ending may be strained, but it works its way to just the right sentiment. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneOct 2, 2017
As actors of undiminished allure, they deserve the best, and Our Souls at Night left me with an austere fantasy. If only Michael Haneke, say, had got hold of the screenplay; if only he had shorn it of its folksiness, its relaxing guitar score, and its subplot about Addie’s grumpy grandson (Iain Armitage), whom Louis persuades to lay down his iPhone in favor of toy trains and fishing. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinOct 2, 2017
The last act of Our Souls at Night is rushed and the ending truncated. But the good vibes linger. Netflix is putting the film in a few theaters but it’s online now to watch. You should. It’s a nice little movie. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 27, 2017
Part of the pleasure of this film, directed by Ritesh Batra (“The Lunchbox”), lies in the rediscovery of what wonderful actors they can be, and how good they are together. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinSep 17, 2017
The whole package is still charming on its own cosy terms – the film equivalent of a loveable old hound that fetches your favourite slippers, rolls over for a tickle, curls up on your feet, contentedly passes wind, then nods off. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJul 17, 2018
It is stately, quiet and elegiac, all respect-your-elders politesse for “Pleasantly dull.” Read full review
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