Pictures of Ghosts
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: January 26, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesManohla DargisJan 25, 2024
Love suffuses Pictures of Ghosts, a cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home. Read full review
91
IndieWireGuilherme JacobsSep 12, 2023
This nostalgic and melancholy trip is also a celebration. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJan 29, 2024
Pictures of Ghosts is so lovely and alive that, if anything, it only reassures you that movies aren’t going anywhere. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJan 26, 2024
The one constant of life is change, and our own individual relations to the place we grew up, or came of age, in are invariably complicated not by just the alterations in the landscape but the way our perspectives shift...The Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho understands this feeling just as well as I and maybe you do, and he’s made a lovely, enveloping film about it, called “Pictures of Ghosts.” Read full review
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 16, 2024
Pictures of Ghosts isn’t a timeline but a winding journey through remembrances of things past, and it moves with entrancing gracefulness through a history that’s near and dear to Kleber Filho’s heart. Read full review
81
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJan 26, 2024
Filho is self-reflective, not self-obsessed, and his clear-eyed stance is crucial to the anti-vanity he brings to his examination of his childhood home and youthful obsession. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineBrad HandfordOct 9, 2023
As always with Kleber Mendonça Filho, to reflect reality isn’t enough, as cinema has to find its own truth, even if it takes some imagination to get there. Read full review
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