76
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIn keeping with Jóhann Jóhannsson's score - alternately ominous, triumphant, and elegiac - The Miners' Hymns plays on the broader emotions of the subject. The film is all about the mysterious world down below, how camaraderie turned to conflict, and the nagging feeling of loss.
- 80Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonIt speaks eloquently about the disappearance of most any indigenous working-class culture.
- 80VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibMorrison sometimes slows down imagery to a hypnotic, frame-by-frame trance-like state; one can imagine townsfolk scrutinizing the faces of long-dead relatives magically raised.
- 75Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerA study of the this former mining region in both its de-industralized present and its past state as an active coalfield, The Miners' Hymns arranges its two parts as a set of binary oppositions.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisAn elegant, elegiac found-footage work from Bill Morrison, best known for his silent-film reverie "Decasia."
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichMiners' is tiresome and scattershot.