Our Time
Monument Releasing | Release Date: June 14, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
98
TheWrapCarlos AguilarJun 14, 2019
One of the year’s most thought-provoking and spellbinding releases, Our Time is calibrated for patience and observation with ideas as concrete as such an ambiguous storyteller like Reygadas can offer. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJun 14, 2019
Our Time is even funny sometimes, albeit in the same kind of wryly mordant and cosmically alienated way as Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJun 13, 2019
The movie asks a lot of the viewer, but to this viewer, it gave back more. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayJun 10, 2019
The film elides politics in order to earnestly consider whether love is necessarily an act of possession. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 27, 2019
Granting Esther the same psychological weight he grants Juan would have helped, surely. That Reygadas refuses to do so might be interpreted as a boorish lack of curiosity — or, more charitably, as an honest self-indictment, a refusal to speak for a character he doesn’t know or understand. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJul 15, 2019
Reygadas has made a career out of a confrontational lyricism, finding poetry in images that could be considered mundane or even ugly – but the film is nearly three hours long. You have to question how much time spent loitering next to the carburettor is actually justified. Read full review
60
Screen DailyJonathan RomneySep 12, 2018
A film of considerable visual poetry and, at times, grandeur, Our Time is unmistakably the work of the ambitious, visionary director behind Battle In Heaven and Stellet Licht, but as a Bergmanesque drama of emotional anguish, the solemn, militantly downbeat Our Time often makes oppressive viewing and at times struggles to justify its nearly three-hour length. Read full review
58
The Film StageEthan VestbySep 18, 2018
While the film can be tough to endure, one does come away feeling like the artist behind it genuinely went for something instead of recycling cliches. Our Time perhaps does give one enough hope that, yes, the next one will be better. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiJun 26, 2019
It’s a shame that the narrative, with often astute and eloquent reflections on humanity, fails to cohere as a whole and gets bogged down by a common love triangle. Our Time is gorgeously filmed, but it is also vapid, and perhaps the languorous mind of this auteur needs to be shaken up. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJun 12, 2019
However truthful or invented Our Time may be, its dynamic is tiresomely petty and small, resisting Reygadas’ occasional efforts at expressionism. It plays like therapy. Read full review
42
IndieWireMichael NordineSep 12, 2018
Nuestro tiempo ultimately feels like an extended couples-therapy session that we were invited to by mistake, with Reygadas playing both doctor and patient in a conflict of interest that goes unresolved. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 11, 2019
Our Time, for all its moments of brilliance, takes almost three hours in leading us nowhere very rewarding at all. Read full review
40
VarietyJay WeissbergSep 12, 2018
Die-hard acolytes will argue that the camerawork transcends or even complements the storyline; most everyone else will wonder what happened to an auteur whose work was awaited with such eager anticipation. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 12, 2018
This navel-gazing epic is maddeningly distancing at almost every turn, lacking the spiritual and existential breadth of even Reygadas’ most impenetrable work. Running a prolix three hours, it feels like being trapped in somebody else’s crisis unfolding in real time. Read full review
25
The PlaylistJordan RuimySep 14, 2018
Our Time is gorgeously shot, naturally, and the intentions are well-meaning but far too self-serving. Read full review
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