Like the best movies of this kind, and this is one of the best movies of this kind, the film is not entirely starry-eyed about what its city is...

| Apr 17, 2025

Settling into All We Imagine As Light‘s warm, generous gaze is easy — it’s leaving it that’s difficult.

| Mar 5, 2025

All We Imagine as Light is a soothing balm amidst the chaotic rhythms of modern Mumbai, offering a gentle meditation on life's complexities.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 11, 2025

Extraordinary for its mixture of harsh realism and ethereal beauty in depicting both the experience of women in India’s modern cities and the religious sectarianism that pervades the society.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 5, 2025

This beautifully crafted film offers a fresh perspective on the power of connection, the complexity of relationships, and the unspoken (and unbreakable) bond between women.

| Feb 4, 2025

This is a very patient movie, filled with equally patient performances, lyrical camerawork and some stunning images of its characters residing within the frame. Kapadia’s screenplay builds fleshed out characters, even in the supporting roles.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2025

It may be an overwhelmingly large mass of humanity, but Kapadia shows us that every one in that sea is an individual, with their own hopes, dreams, secrets and regrets.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2025

The movie places the patriarchy under a microscope, not by lambasting double standards and gender inequality, but by showing the sisterhood formed through common causes and tribulations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2025

A sensual, textural film about the unrequited loves, and lives, of two Indian nurses. Director Payal Kapadia honours and echoes a couple titans of international cinema here: Wong Kar-wai and Abbas Kiarostami.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2025

All We Imagine as Light captures the depth and beauty behind the routine of three women and the torrent of life (and water) of the city of Bombay. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 23, 2025

"All We Imagine as Light" tells three women's interconnected stories, each specific, deeply moving, and universally relevant.

| Jan 23, 2025

A bold work of feminist drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 22, 2025

All We Imagine as Light is an intriguing story with solid performances and a conclusion that, although hopeful, doesn't seem quite enough. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 17, 2025

The movie flows along like a dream with some lovely sequences in the city and in the country. There is a magical sequence in a cave, where graffiti is mingled with faces sculpted into the cave walls, lensed by Ranabir Das. It is an enchanting film.

| Original Score: A | Jan 16, 2025

[Payal Kapadia] is quite canny in the political aspect...and is able to explore it without ever detaching herself from the emotional state of her protagonists...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Mumbai, with its relentless energy and unwavering monsoons, becomes the beating heart of All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia’s new film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 13, 2025

In her first fiction feature, documentarian Payal Kapadia brings a poetic profundity to this cinematic spellbinder about female sisterhood in a big city (Mumbai) full of societal, economic and political pressures that can force out intimacy and dreams

| Jan 10, 2025

A portrait of three Indian women who find that friendship, love, and the future can be filled with light.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

… Kapadia's cinematography extracts delicacy, sensitivity and human depth. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2025

A captivating visual poem about friendship and sisterhood. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2025