This is a story of true love – a love between a husband and wife that only grew stronger through the many years they experienced together. It’s a love that’s taken for granted today and often times treated so flippantly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

In typical Haneke fashion, it leaves us with a deluge of questions about aging, dying, grief, and of course, love, but never dares to give an answer to any of them.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 19, 2022

Haneke's most resonant film considers that love has more dimension than we might believe, just as life alternates between harmonious times and inevitable conclusions.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Getting old is an ugly business and seldom a subject for cinema. I can't think of anyone more fitting than Michael Haneke to tackle this uncinematic, almost taboo subject.

| Feb 28, 2021

Veteran Austrian auteur Michael Haneke eschews his trademark polarizing story tropes to produce a moving and complex portrait of the final months of a marriage between two retired Parisian music-teachers.

| Jun 19, 2020

What makes Amour not only bearable but cathartic is the beauty of the filmmaking and the delicacy of the performances.

| Aug 27, 2019

If love truly does overcome all things, then this is its ultimate test, and Haneke's searing vision is destined to haunt until our dying day.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

In a far more subtle fashion, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva give an octogenarian master class in acting.

| Jul 31, 2019

Amour is definitely a good film, but I'm judging this on the scale of Haneke's previous films where it just doesn't stand up.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 2, 2019

This is a film that is hard to watch at times because of its realistic portrait of a couple in their final years, but it is one that should be seen. It's a love story that will stay with you long after you've left the theater.

| Original Score: A | Apr 10, 2019

Never easy but always tender, Amour is quietly unforgettable, and one of the best films of the year.

| Feb 26, 2019

With Amour, Haneke has captured the grief of our own mortality in a delicate and profoundly humane way.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 5, 2019

Amour is indeed something special and very much worth the effort it takes to see it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2018

If only some of the uninhibitedly energetic thought and insight of these actors had found its way into Haneke's movie.

| Sep 12, 2018

Haneke has taken the ordinary - getting old; dying; happens to us all; no exceptions - and has transformed it into something so literate, powerful, terrifying, intelligent and extraordinary.

| Sep 4, 2018

Lead performances makes it convincing to a point, but these poor characters are merely players in a signature act of desperation, Haneke style.

| Aug 30, 2018

Amour is a totally compelling, emotionally devastating movie, in which Haneke's technical trademarks support his overall theme.

| Aug 8, 2018

In our death-dreading Western culture, he deserves credit for unsentimentally and unflinchingly depicting the ugly realities of growing old and dealing with terminal illness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2018

What Haneke give us with Amour is a love story, one that is compassionate, powerful and intelligent, and that treats its protagonists and its audiences with respect.

| Apr 9, 2018

[Director Michael Haneke] rarely moves the camera, and most of the film takes place inside an elderly couple's spacious apartment. Yet the film never seems claustrophobic.

| Feb 22, 2018