R.M.N.
IFC Films | Release Date: April 28, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Irish TimesTara BradySep 22, 2023
There are no easy answers here, only people and centuries of redrawn borders. Read full review
100
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 27, 2023
The tame and the wild roam through R.M.N., nipping at its edges, adding visual texture and deepening its themes. Read full review
91
ColliderChase HutchinsonSep 27, 2022
It is a work of patient yet painful observation that exposes how a community of struggling people can easily turn hateful. Read full review
90
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 4, 2023
R.M.N. is one of the most searing cinematic examinations of xenophobia I’ve ever seen. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 27, 2023
Mungiu is a master of the long, talky slow burn, and if R.M.N. often feels less focused and more sprawling than some of his earlier movies (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” “Graduation”), that’s a testament to its expansiveness and ambition. The story becomes increasingly gripping as it meanders and lingers, broadens and deepens, putting peripheral characters into play and bringing latent hostilities to the surface. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 28, 2023
Mungiu doesn’t traffic in easy hero and villain narratives. He’s more interested in revealing how easily anyone can be both. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 18, 2023
It’s a fascinating and utterly engrossing film, immersing us in this world, fretting over what we can see coming before the principals do, and relating it to the xenophobia and bigotry out in the open in America, just as it is in backward, rural Transylvania. Read full review
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 25, 2022
Its dizzying culmination of ideas proves more feature than bug. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 23, 2022
Pulling harder and harder at the tension between complex socioeconomic forces and the simple human emotions they inspire, R.M.N. masterfully spins an all too familiar migration narrative into an atavistic passion play about the antagonistic effects of globalization on the European Union. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeSep 25, 2023
The space that Mungiu leaves, both physically, with his immaculately composed wide shots, and temporally, in the unhurried plotting, allows for a satisfying complexity, and an eventual swerve into dreamlike symbolism. Read full review
80
CineVueChristopher MachellSep 25, 2023
In its depiction of a part of Europe struggling to keep up with neoliberalism, R.M.N. exposes the dark mirror of liberal, globalised western European metropolitanism. Read full review
80
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsSep 22, 2023
It’s another very special film from this exceptionally gifted and thoughtful (and extremely angry) director. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJul 28, 2023
What Mr. Mungiu puts together, in tandem with the ornate private lives of several main characters, is an anatomy of race hatred. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 27, 2022
The film’s craft, with its shivery wooded landscapes and deep focus, is consistently strong, and the acting – especially from State, but also many of the bickering village ensemble – spices up what might have been a route-one polemic. Read full review
80
VarietyJessica KiangMay 23, 2022
R.M.N. is a slow-motion snapshot of a deeply riven community flying apart in all directions, as though some bomb, detonated years or perhaps even centuries ago, has never stopped exploding. Read full review
80
TheWrapBen CrollMay 23, 2022
With bleak serenity of a man who has peered into the abyss and responded with a smile, the filmmaker offers no answer or easy way out to the intractable, and perhaps foundational, human capacity for hate than with his own virtuosic talent. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 23, 2022
This is masterly understated filmmaking marked by a few stand-out sequences, particularly a one-shot town hall meeting that lasts for an entire reel and throws all the issues on the table before erupting into chaos. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 10, 2023
R.M.N. is as gripping and scrupulously humane as Mungiu’s admirers have come to expect from an artist of supreme discipline and dramatic skill. It’s one thing to be a master of mise-en-scene; it’s all the more impressive when that talent for detail — pictorial and behavioral — results in an illumination of the world that’s both ruthless and surpassingly compassionate. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenApr 21, 2023
Writer-director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) paints a communal portrait with a large cast of characters, which makes the film feel a bit wandering and amorphous at times. Yet there are arresting, individual moments. Read full review
75
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodMay 23, 2022
The power of Mungiu’s work is his writing. Like much of Eastern European cinema of the past decade, he’s crafted a morality tale that should prompt a viewer to take a look at themselves in the mirror wherever they may live. And if it ends without any hint of resolution? With barely a glimmer of hope? So be it. Read full review
70
SlashfilmRyan LestonJun 1, 2022
One thing's for certain — R.M.N. is by no means a pedestrian affair, with Mungiu's mastery of the Transylvanian landscapes the perfect backdrop for the exploration of some heavy issues. There's a lot to unpack by the time the credits roll. But it's deserving of every stray thought you'll return to in the days after watching it. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 23, 2022
It’s tribute to Mungiu’s bravura as a writer and director that, despite the fact that he never quite finishes unpacking a suitcase full of themes and ideas, R.M.N. is never less than an absorbing watch. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezMay 24, 2022
R.M.N. is more suspense thriller than procedural, and it’s content to have the audience walk on the razor’s edge of doubt and fear through much of its two-hour running time. Perhaps too content. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2022
RMN is a sombre downbeat movie, whose sudden flurry of dreamlike visions at the very end is a little disconcerting. But it is seriously engaged with the dysfunction and unhappiness in Europe that goes unreported and unacknowledged. Read full review
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