True Things
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: September 9, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
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Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldSep 8, 2022
What makes the film’s episodic approach flow is the pulse-sensitive camerawork. It’s worth singling out, because it is the kind that is often described as “intimate” but rarely pulled off with such Maysles-esque aplomb. Read full review
90
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganSep 18, 2021
All in all, it’s the strength of vision which impresses — the confidence and the brio of a film-maker adapting a novel and losing herself inside it, making no apologies for her interpretation. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleySep 9, 2022
For those of you who miss films made by adults and for adults, films which treat things like sex and loneliness with respect and honesty, "True Things" isn't to be missed. Read full review
83
Original-CinLiam LaceySep 20, 2022
Although it’s not a life-affirming or audience-flattering parable, the drama feels refreshingly raw and adult. Read full review
80
TheWrapFran HoepfnerSep 9, 2022
Harry Wootliff’s True Things is a raw and passionate look at the type of love that can be both all-encompassing and destructive, passionate and dangerous. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeApr 4, 2022
With great physical poise and precision, Wilson (who optioned and developed the source book) engages the audience on a visceral level, her deceptively low-key performance taking us deep inside her character’s dreams, desires and insecurities. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyApr 1, 2022
Following on from Harry Wootliff’s infertility romance, Only You, this confirms the British writer-director as an unmissable talent. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyMar 31, 2022
By managing to keep faith with this fast-unravelling person, even in her most bozo moments of losing the plot, Wilson turns in her best and bravest work in films to date. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 18, 2021
Wootliff cuts away everything other than the raw nerves that are left exposed, creating a film more elemental than narrative. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakSep 18, 2021
Adapting a book by Deborah Kay Davies, director Harry Wootliff and her co-writer Molly Davies bring True Things to life as a quasi-reaction to Instagram captions generally painting a much sunnier picture than reality could ever prove. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurraySep 9, 2022
Ruth Wilson gives an outstanding performance. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 18, 2021
Harry Wootliff’s jaggedly grown-up psychological drama True Things thrives on the hot, tense chemistry between its two excellent leads: It’s what pulls the audience through an obstacle course of potentially implausible scenarios that instead ring stingingly true. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 8, 2022
True Things is solidly made but there’s just not enough substance underlining the characters or their story for it to be memorable. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 8, 2022
Wilson holds our attention with her manner, her actions and her eyes, creating a broken beauty who may be too flighty to figure out her “gather ye rosebuds” years are coming to an end, and too impulsive to see the impulses that help make her “beguiling” are just self-defeating and self-destructive. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 5, 2022
Wilson and Burke give formidably good performances: a woman who desperately wants to give and receive love, and a man who hasn’t the smallest idea what any of that means. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyApr 1, 2022
True Things isn’t quite as effective as the director’s 2018 debut, Only You, which tracked the fluctuating desires of a couple (played by Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor) undergoing IVF treatment. But it does reiterate Wootliff’s fluency in the unvarnished, messy spaces of female desire, operating in a way that doesn’t sacrifice the actual sexiness of her work. Read full review
60
Little White LiesSteph GreenMar 31, 2022
Well made and with relatability and stark intensity, it’s by no means a disappointing film. But with the zeitgeist now so attuned to red flags in relationships, its message arrives a little out of time. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerMar 29, 2022
It says little that is new and lacks heat, but Wilson and Burke inhabit a compelling mismatched couple, with Wootliff finding cinematic ways to get under their skin. A flawed but admirable attempt to take the temperature of a dark, modern relationship. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenSep 18, 2021
The ending offers only a slightly clichéd vision of emancipation that leaves the picture not much clearer. After showing how hard life can be, it feels a little bit too easy. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeSep 18, 2021
Although the film handles the process of being subsumed by love well, the characters ultimately feel too thin to make Kate’s awakening persuasive. Read full review
42
The PlaylistSophie Monks KaufmanSep 18, 2021
True Things spins such a familiar tale that its success rides on how convincingly a mood is conjured. It needs to be so raw that the predictable is rewritten anew in the specific chemistry of these characters. Instead, it is, for the most part, a mood piece drained of mood Read full review
40
The GuardianXan BrooksSep 18, 2021
True Things is not a bad film, exactly. The actors play it like they mean it, while the drama itself carries a natural dry charge. But it’s unambitious, sometimes clunky and doesn’t wrong-foot us once. Read full review
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