69
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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88RogerEbert.comNell MinowRogerEbert.comNell MinowFor those who are open to its challenges, it is a meditation on time, loss, and connection, and almost a century later, those themes are just as vital as they were when Eliot wrote them.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatFour Quartets is a special experience.
- 80Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleUnabashedly theatrical in presentation but broken up with interludes of nature, this Four Quartets is a multi-course feast of concentrated flavors: mesmerizing language, masterly invocation, and the kind of poetic imagery that in the hands of a great actor feels like a direct line from Eliot’s pen to our mind’s landscape.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanFiennes, in his beautifully grave way, slows the poem down for us, speaking the words with rapt deliberation, so that we live in their moment.
- 50The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe New York TimesTeo BugbeeFiennes brings the fire, yet the air around him remains unmoved, even by his embers.