Suspended Time
Music Box Films | Release Date: August 15, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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7
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5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAug 15, 2025
Structurally sound while at the same time lacking anything you could call a “plot,” “Suspended Time” invites you to listen in your own life to that which is often neglected or unheard. Read full review
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorFeb 17, 2024
Assayas, who has dotted his ever-surprising career with brisk, self-aware, sophisticate-centered comedies, has rarely played things quite so close to home. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlex SavelievOct 1, 2025
Audiences have grown so accustomed to nonstop thrills that the film does feel like a relic of sorts; they don’t make ’em like this anymore. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithAug 14, 2025
Mr. Assayas has crafted a beautiful and moving tableau of how one small group dealt with a bewildering change. The time when Covid-19 ruled our lives is one many of us might prefer to forget. May our most gifted artists resist that impulse. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganAug 14, 2025
Though Assayas is best known for his incisive cultural commentary, the subdued regimes and musings in Suspended Time are just as enthralling in their own quiet way. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownFeb 18, 2024
Olivier Assayas’s film is a gently smart and warm-spirited look at love as the core term of human existence. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 14, 2025
The most appealing character in Suspended Time is Assayas, a hovering offscreen presence who delivers the confessional, gracefully digressive narration. Read full review
60
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyFeb 18, 2024
Unfortunately, however confidently Macaigne works his genially shambling nerd persona, the comedy of manners never comes across as sharply as you would hope from a director whose comic mode can be relishably trenchant. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 17, 2024
It’s a movie which reminds us that for all the anxieties, this period of enforced inactivity was for grownups of a certain age and financial security not entirely unpleasant – a reminder of the endless, aimless summer days of childhood, an Edenic existence outside time which workaholic media professionals thought never to see again. A kind of miracle. Read full review
58
IndieWireAdam SolomonsFeb 17, 2024
Suspended Time never really brings its two big ideas together: the everyday challenges of the pandemic, alongside existential worries about what’s behind us and what happens after we die, feel too separate to build into something bigger. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 18, 2024
Alternating a thinly fictionalised portrait of the artist isolating at his family’s country home with fully autobiographical narration by the director himself, this mildly amusing but vastly indulgent bagatelle feels a tardy entry in the first wave of lockdown cinema — too late to feel fresh, but still too soon to have accumulated much meaningful perspective on an experience we all remember too well. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 18, 2024
Suspended Time does provide some of the pleasures frequently associated with Assayas’ work. . . Mostly, however, the project feels like the result of a writer-director killing time, sketching impressions of a life put on hold by outside circumstances, without figuring out what he wants to say with it all. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreAug 12, 2025
The film may be commenting on the cushy way the rich and famous coped with Covid. But it’s insufferable at depicting insufferability. Read full review
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