Sunset Song
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: May 13, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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60
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenMay 12, 2016
Sunset Song, Davies’ adaptation of a 1932 novel about a Scottish farming family, falls short of the intended cumulative effect, its emotional power undercut by its studied, episodic unfolding. Read full review
60
CineVueBen NicholsonSep 19, 2015
While there is hardship and anguish, Davies' deliberate and treatment of the source material ultimately lessens the dramatic impact even while it retains its splendour. Read full review
60
The GuardianHenry BarnesSep 19, 2015
It’s all fairly indulgent. But Sunset Song also has a viciousness that stops it falling too deep into a slumber Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 19, 2015
There are gorgeous things about it, there’s one really good performance, and reminders of Davies’ transcendent style ripple through the film. But it also feels broken and cumbersome, weighed down by a number of decisions that simply don’t work. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 11, 2016
Stultifying in spots, the period drama Sunset Song marks an unexpected misstep for Terence Davies, the eccentric filmmaker whose movies evoke limbo states of memory and repressed feeling using a very British vocabulary of drab spaces. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 19, 2016
Sunset Song is a gritty and gorgeous film. Perhaps a little too gorgeous, in fact, and not gritty enough. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorMay 12, 2016
It’s ripe to the point of bursting and, with a plot that tilts to melodrama, Davies flirts dangerously with cliché, creating an over-wrought period piece where every wheat field is bathed in golden sunlight and every childbirth is announced by chilling screams. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 19, 2015
In full anamorphic 65mm splendor, the resulting landscapes are lovely, as is the face of relative newcomer Agyness Deyn in the role of hardy Scottish heroine Chris Guthrie, although the underlying feelings are all but lost, rendered in a difficult-to-fathom Scottish dialect and withheld by Davies’ overly genteel directorial approach. Read full review
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