Two Seasons, Two Strangers
| Release Date: April 24, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
93
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsApr 24, 2026
When combined, the diametric halves form a charming diptych whose thematic and emotional profundity make for Miyake’s most accomplished work yet. Read full review
91
The Film StageRory O'ConnorApr 23, 2026
Two Seasons is the rare film that begins with mundane clarity (remember, “scene 1, summer, seaside”) and works its way back, leaving you with the knottier stuff of life. Along the way, Li remembers what it’s like to have fun; the movie dutifully follows her lead. Read full review
90
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergApr 23, 2026
Li, carrying a camera she has inherited, appears to search for inspiration in her surroundings, too. Whatever elusive quality she is seeking, Miyake has found something like it. His film gently balances tidiness and looseness, connection and alienation and artifice and the natural world. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineZach LewisApr 24, 2026
In beautifully quiet ways, Two Seasons, Two Strangers captures its characters in the realm of the ineffable, making the mundane utterly sublime. Read full review
83
IndieWireJosh Slater-WilliamsAug 21, 2025
The build-up to the film’s low-key, poetic resolution is made all the more moving by Shim’s intelligent performance, which is effectively informed by the actor’s positioning between two languages throughout, giving her a platform and reason to convey additional emotional nuances without dialogue — the performer, in a sense, also breaking free from “a cage of words” like her character. Read full review
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