Naturally the film has emerged as one to watch during the present-day turbulence; such timeliness is eclipsed only by its visual splendor, further reflecting the ability of art to transmit by way of form in addition to content.

| Apr 8, 2022

Instead of being numbingly dreary and depressing, given the economically depressed, horrifically polluted and landmine-strewn region, Atlantis is strangely upbeat, oddly hopeful even.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2021

Tonally, there are shades of Werner Herzog. But Vasyanovych's tone is distinct; not to mention timely. The crisis he depicts can be as dull as it is dramatic, making Atlantis an eerily topical watch.

| Feb 9, 2021

Atlantis isn't an easy film to watch, and it's not meant to be. It's an anti-war film without solutions, but what it clear is that Vasyanovych believes in humanity rebuilding from tragedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2021

It is viscerally bleak and very slow. I can't say that I enjoyed it, but I really admire the artistry behind it and I admire the intent.

| Jan 30, 2021

What eventually emerges is a devastating look at this country that has won a war, but lost so much of what they were fighting for.

| Jan 30, 2021

An extremely well-made film that contains some truly extraordinary imagery.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2021

What exists in this visualized afterward may not look like anything, but that's why we're fortunate to have artists like Vasyanovych to show us what's dazzling, strange, tragic, comic, touching and eventually optimistic about the way forward.

| Jan 23, 2021

Mr. Vasyanovych's approach is literally and figuratively visionary. One aspect of the vision is its treatment of machinery.

| Jan 22, 2021

Vasyanovych and his actors manage to make this parable both heartening and stupefying.

| Jan 21, 2021

Sergiy's dead-eyed quality is mirrored in the film's style. Scenes typically play out in a single take, the camera set at a fixed distance and blankly awaiting catastrophe.

| Aug 20, 2020

The film's use of scale to drive home the absurdity of its characters' actions sometimes calls to mind Werner Herzog's tragicomic existentialism, as well as early silent cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2020

This is a strong piece of poetically pure art-house cinema that finally offers a ray of hope for humanity's future - not just the Ukraine's, as this largely depoliticized statement is one of universal relevance.

| Sep 16, 2019

[A] dark yet humanly luminous story.

| Sep 7, 2019