The Load
Grasshopper Film | Release Date: August 30, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmAug 28, 2019
This is one of the year’s best films. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 17, 2019
The overtly graphic isn’t Glavonic’s visual style, but rather a cold, more powerful image seepage — what a man’s physicality says about complicity, and what a shot of the muddied ground near a hosed-down truck says about what war does to the ground, a land and the soul. Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 29, 2019
The gray skies under which Glavonic shoots, the unhurried takes in which he chronicles the drive, they put us with Vlada in an unmitigated way, the better to compel viewers to ask themselves what they would do in his position. Read full review
80
VarietyJessica KiangAug 28, 2019
It requires a degree of commitment on the part of the viewer to join the sparsely placed dots of Glavonić’s harshly intelligent and uncompromisingly spare story, especially when the picture they form is so harrowing. But the elements that frustrate can also devastate. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJake ColeAug 28, 2019
Chromatically, The Load makes Saving Private Ryan look like The Band Wagon. Yet Glavonic still manages to convey the devastation and numbness that results from atrocity without resorting to exploitation. Trauma is approached obliquely, more a subliminal fact of life than a single psychological rupture to be confronted and mended. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaAug 28, 2019
As intelligently crafted as the film is, Glavonić’s directorial strategies do end up limiting the film’s observational power. Read full review
72
TheWrapMichael NordineAug 28, 2019
It’s like we’re front-seat passengers, and though it induces much anxiety, “The Load” compels us to keep both eyes forward lest we miss whatever might happen next. Read full review
70
Screen DailySarah WardAug 28, 2019
If any colour represents the long-term impact of war, it’s the blend of beige and grey that fills The Load’s quietly powerful frames. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonAug 28, 2019
This well-intentioned meditation of the banality of evil packs a modest emotional punch, but it might have been more powerful if it had shown us a little less banality and a little more evil. Read full review
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