Together
Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: August 27, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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89
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 26, 2021
For his part, director Stephen Daldry synthesizes the predominant beats of his film work, which has vacillated between feel-good awards bait (Billy Elliot) and feel-bad awards bait (The Hours, The Reader). Feel-good/feel-bad is Together to a T. It feels wonderful. Read full review
88
ObserverRex ReedAug 31, 2021
Exploring the suffocating complexities of domestic life in the social isolation of quarantine, this volatile couple explores the shifting values of their relationship, from sex to politics (including the possibility of — God forbid — marriage!), with an insight that is never less than a candid talisman to learn from and live by in troubled times. Read full review
83
The PlaylistChristian GallichioAug 23, 2021
Featuring pointedly jagged performances from James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, the only characters in film besides their son Arthur (Samuel Logan), who moves around the film, and frame’s, periphery, Together is an occasionally slight, but nevertheless riveting showcase for the actors and Kelly’s decidedly unsentimental script. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAug 26, 2021
What begins as a chamber piece, directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin from a screenplay by Dennis Kelly, becomes a full-fledged movie with a pair of marvelous performances at its claustrophobic center. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineJacob OllerAug 31, 2021
Together, from director Stephen Daldry and writer Dennis Kelly, succeeds by candidly approaching the subject head-on—literally, as its two-handed drama starring a couple played by James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan is a moving, sharp and charmingly black-humored film of direct address. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattSep 2, 2021
Even within the stagy confines of the movie's Scenes From a Marriage setup, Horgan and McAvoy manage to tease out the more subtle and enduring bits in their characters' unravelings. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 27, 2021
As the pandemic is still raging at this moment, it's obviously too early to tell whether "Together" is one for the ages or another one from that time. It's alternately brilliant and amateurish—a four-star acting masterclass at its best and a two-star ripped-from-the-headlines botch at its worst. Split the difference and you'll arrive at something like a holistic consideration. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 26, 2021
You might well be tired of pandemic-inspired movies and series and I’m leaning in that direction myself, but I’m still recommending the blistering and razor-sharp two-hander Together largely on the strength of the searing and unfiltered and stunningly good performances by Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 26, 2021
Visually as well as emotionally, there’s more energy here than in some action movies. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAug 24, 2021
Only in fits and starts does Together capture the electricity of live performance. Read full review
58
The Film StageDan MeccaAug 23, 2021
The fourth-wall breaks grow a bit tiresome and its final scene fails to build on the intensity of what comes just before, but leading turns and the topical setting prove memorable. How much you would like to be reminded of our current state of affairs is, of course, up to each and every viewer. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 26, 2021
Even at its most glancing and superficial, Together offers a diverting attempt at capturing recent history, in all its maddening contradictions and compromises, recriminations and rages. It reflects a time when all we had was each other, for better or — way too often — for worse. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 26, 2021
Together may not be the best pandemic movie about a poison-tongued couple stuck in lockdown together, but it’s the first to recognize that rage is a necessary part of grieving what the pandemic has taken from us. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanAug 26, 2021
As adept as Together is at capturing the challenges of the pandemic — the uncertainty, the anger, the bone-deep exhaustion — it’s rather less convincing as a love story. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisAug 23, 2021
Both McAvoy and Horgan handle the rapid-fire dialogue with gusto, and for a while, their devastating banter is amusing. But eventually the effect begins to wear thin: These vocal diatribes need a more developed story to hang on. Read full review
40
Screen RantRachel LaBonteSep 4, 2021
Together finds moments of real emotion between its main prickly pair, but it still makes one wish there weren't movies about COVID already. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 26, 2021
That it’s bearable at all is entirely because of the superlative acting skills of James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as an unnamed couple forced to endure an extended London lockdown. Read full review
40
TheWrapRobert AbeleAug 24, 2021
In all too many ways, it’s a predictable, tiring wade as both a domestic tale and a pandemic yarn. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineWes GreeneAug 23, 2021
Together’s dramaturgy perfectly, if unintentionally, underscores the suffocating nature of pandemic living. Read full review
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