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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100EmpireDamon WiseEmpireDamon WiseTense, kinetic, intelligent and real – as if Paul Greengrass had remade Vera Drake.
- 100TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissOne of the strongest movies in recent years.
- 100Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.
- 100VarietyVarietyPitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc.
- 100L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThough the frighteningly late-term abortion at its center hints at larger sins in the last gasp of Nicolae Ceausescu’s iron-fisted regime, it’s no metaphor, but a sordidly visceral transaction conducted in the next best thing to a back alley.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe coup de grâce is especially graceless because everything we know is already visible in Marinca’s eyes. The actress is extraordinary.
- 88The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyRelentlessly dark but expertly rendered, it shares its cinematographer and quality of aggrieved compassion with another recent Romanian art house hit, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu."
- 80The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe film is dark, gloomy and without music, but it is also observant and highly suspenseful, with Mungiu using his often static camera to balance banal cruelty with simple generosity.
- 80The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneMungiu’s pacing is so sure, however, in its switching from loose to taut, and the concentration of his leading lady so unwavering, that the movie, which won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, feels more like a thriller than a moody wallow.