A drama of profound majesty sure to be marveled at for many years to come.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 16, 2016

How many great movies could be written across the enigmatic, profound face of Charlotte Rampling? Hundreds? Thousands? At any rate, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years is one of them.

| May 10, 2016

This story, which grows richer the more you think about it, is a rueful acknowledgment of the fact that few of us can.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2016

If the subject matter is familiar, Haigh approaches it in good faith - avoiding both sentimentality and cynicism, and seeking out fresh insight rather than settling for cliche.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 19, 2016

The naturalistic approach of Haigh and his actors makes 45 Hours a memorable screen experience, filled with subtle details and clues to the relationship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2016

To know is not the same as to possess, and at any rate, possession is never permanent.

| Feb 4, 2016

In the beautifully acted drama"45 Years," a marriage lives and dies; we watch its agonized struggle, like a butterfly impaled on a pin.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 29, 2016

[Rampling's] magnificent, in the most monumental sense of the word, and the rumply, agitated Courtenay - though not a mirror - is every bit her match.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 28, 2016

What's the big deal? How does an entire film come of this? There are satisfying answers to these questions, but to state them would be to ruin a perfectly good movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 28, 2016

Daringly unsentimental, "45 Years" makes a persuasive case that marriage demands not only patience, but guts.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 28, 2016

45 Years exposes the paradoxical balance of the successful marriage, one that requires a sentimental suspension of disbelief on the one hand and a hard-headed ability to deal with the everyday on the other.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 22, 2016

A movie that will shatter you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2016

"45 Years" is a movie about intuition and inner lives, and you have to look fast to catch all its resonances.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 21, 2016

Both actors deliver a master class in expression by understatement. The most unsettling of ghosts, we are moved to realize, are the ones we try hardest to deny.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 21, 2016

45 Years is a study in economy, in the beautiful symmetry of word and image and music.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 21, 2016

This is not an actual horror movie, but the tension grows so great in some scenes you might mistake it for one.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 21, 2016

Haigh knows how to thread a story in a way that makes it feel deliberate and spontaneous, so that when it reaches its climax, viewers feel that it's both inevitable and utterly devastating.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 21, 2016

It's cathartic, and moving, without any of the usual obvious contrivances or manipulations.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 21, 2016

Rampling shines in this nuanced study on commitment and bonds in relationships...

| Jan 7, 2016

casts a hell of a spell. And Courtenay and Rampling reward the film with performances of uncommon subtlety and feeling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2016