Viola
Cinema Guild | Release Date: July 12, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceCalum MarshJul 9, 2013
The world the film describes is so vividly realized that it seems to spill over the edges of the frame, as if the lives of its characters will continue after the credits roll. Read full review
100
Time OutKeith UhlichJul 9, 2013
Moreover, the story doesn’t climax in all’s-well-that-ends-well matrimony, instead building to a beautifully bittersweet moment of self-realization, one with a light-touch profundity that would make the Bard proud. Read full review
90
NPRTomas HachardJul 12, 2013
What results is a film that takes on the vicissitudes of life and love with honest concern, but also with a shrug of the shoulders — a movie that leaves us with a smile on our faces but also more than a few thoughts in our heads. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineMar 18, 2013
In essentially offering up The Twelfth Night as a hazy Shakespearean mash-up, Viola isn't so much deeply disrespecting notions of ownership, authorship, etc., as charitably redefining them. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJul 12, 2013
The mischievous paradox of Matías Piñeiro’s Viola is that it is at once devilishly complicated and perfectly simple. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneySep 12, 2013
Viola owes much of the pleasure it offers to the sorts of things one looks for in any good movie: an attractive cast, attractively photographed in an attractive location, and plotting that manages to feel relaxed without being lazy. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJul 12, 2013
While the pleasures of the brief (65 minutes) Viola are modest, it displays an imagination and stylishness that marks the young filmmaker as someone to watch. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJul 16, 2013
It’s a pleasant, negligible wisp of a movie, notable mostly for what it suggests of its director’s potential. Read full review
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