The Currents
Kino Lorber | Release Date: May 29, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldJun 6, 2026
Instead of an exercise in alienation, Mumenthaler and her star, Isabel Aimé Gonzalez Sola, create a far richer search for self that effortlessly blends the psychological, existential and sociological. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschNov 5, 2025
The Currents never comes off as derivative. The elegance and, especially, empathy with which Mumenthaler captures the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are give the film a voluptuous pull all its own. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassOct 29, 2025
While The Currents can certainly be read as a portrait of a woman coming apart at the seams, it also offers a more expansive view of mental illness as a sensitivity not wholly pathological, but rather capable of reframing and refreshing the world. Read full review
85
Film ThreatBen GliddenMay 28, 2026
Lina is one of the most compelling characters in cinema this year. In González-Sola’s raw, grounded portrayal, we find a woman doing everything she can to mask her struggle. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerJun 12, 2026
Mumenthaler accesses both sides of Lina’s uncanny dissociation, the lonesome and the sublime. It’s a captivating assessment of a hypersensitive mental state, nonjudgmental yet clear-eyed about the power it holds over its subject. But what allows The Currents to sweep you away is its understanding of impermanence. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeNov 5, 2025
This is impressively composed, searching high-art cinema, elevated by its meticulous, silkily textured formal construction Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesOct 29, 2025
Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.” One daring sequence toward the end offers a vivid panorama beyond this woman’s world. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMay 29, 2026
Mumenthaler’s oblique off-center approach makes “Currents” a strangely mesmerizing work, and up until almost the very end, its mysteries remain intact. Read full review
75
The Film StageJourdain SearlesNov 5, 2025
Mumenthaler doesn’t want to give us the answers––she just wants us to wade through it and find our own way to shore. Read full review
70
The Film VerdictKevin JagernauthNov 5, 2025
Mumenthaler’s screenplay works best when it lives and breathes in the ambiguities of Lina’s malaise and dissatisfaction, and how she balances it with her responsibilities as an entrepreneur, wife, and devoted mother. Splitting the difference between its more lyrical touches with more straightforward storytelling saps some of the power out of the film. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJun 18, 2026
If anything, the collaboration between González-Sola, Mumenthaler, and Sandru is a case study of how the elements of cinema fuse together to become what Roger Ebert so aptly dubbed an empathy machine. Read full review
50
Next Best PictureDan BayerOct 29, 2025
While well-made, The Currents lacks the spark of originality that could make it truly outstanding Read full review
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