Winslet and Ronan are excellent in roles in which dialogue is relatively sparse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

If many modern viewers have never heard of Anning, Ammonite does well to bring her story to their attention, and deservedly so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2024

Ending the film on the silence between two lovers can be powerful, but in the case of Ammonite, it highlights how little Mary and Charlotte have to say to each other.

| Jul 25, 2023

Winslet and Ronan are always a joy to watch, especially when they share a wordless moment together, as in one intimate scene where Charlotte dabs a little of her perfume on Mary while their eyes express their unspoken feelings.

| Jul 24, 2023

Ammonite' is an essential viewing experience for ardent fans of Kate Winslet, as her portrayal is nothing short of extraordinary.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 11, 2023

Lee has, over his two films so far, proven a dab hand at teasing out unexpressed, furtive desires, depicting both the visceral emotions and gritty physicality of same-sex romance with empathy and an understated artistic flair.

| Jun 5, 2023

This film went by quickly, but I look back on it and wonder what I ended up watching. I struggle to see how this film is two-hours long...

| Original Score: C | Mar 8, 2023

The dual performances at its center (from two of the best working actresses in the game) are worth checking out on their own.

| Sep 27, 2022

Rich, layered, and nuanced observation of human experience that is both specific and, to most of us, alien.

| May 20, 2022

The film’s restraint is admirable, but the distance from which it watches these characters grow keeps their passion from fully reaching the audience. Much like a fossil, we’re left with the impression of the thing, not the thing itself.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 11, 2022

This is a bland and empty feature that feels like an ancient fossil void of any passion or substantial emotion.

| Feb 22, 2022

Despite the efforts of two wonderful actors, it is perhaps destined to be one of those films that becomes lost in the awards season shuffle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2022

Like most of the visual symbolism in Ammonite, the imagery is not subtle, but it effectively conveys the social conditions of the period.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2022

It echoes the narrative concept of Lee's debut film, God's Own Country, and, as with that film, Ammonite is very much a swirl of atmosphere, subtext and repressed emotions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2021

Lee cracks open taboos with the blunt determination of Mary Anning hammering a fossil out of a rock. Yet for all the film's daring, it never fully sparks into life and remains for much of its running time as glum and dour as Winslet's Mary.

| Sep 2, 2021

Both Winslet and Ronan deliver a pair of delectably rich performances, but the film itself is slight and a bizarre biopic, which is arguably not a biopic at all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

Despite its lead character's propensity to dig for fossils in sand and dirt, Ammonite lacks groundbreaking originality.

| Jul 19, 2021

It's impossible to not compare this film to last year's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and, unfortunately, Ammonite falls short, despite a deeply resonant performance by Kate Winslet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2021

Water does its own work of polishing old rough things down to a perfect glittering sheen. There's a hard beauty waiting for those willing to do some painstaking and intensive, focused work.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 2, 2021

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan's performances are the high points of the film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 22, 2021