Christie and Pinsent offer two of the most substantial, affecting performances of 2007.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 7, 2022

Polley's direction is simple, yet assured, with a vision that allows the actors to shine. The cast is more than up to the task.

| Original Score: A | Nov 21, 2019

Polley displays a keen understanding of the sense of confusion and loss that goes along with Alzheimer's, and she handles it well, guiding the film with a warmth, humor, and heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

That the film does justice to the original short story is saying something.

| Aug 23, 2017

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2012

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

No one dreams of the twilight transpiring in "Away From Her," but, in its words, it's not bad luck. It's just life. You can't beat life. A tenderly told tragedy about Alzheimer's Disease's erosive effects, Sarah Polley's film avoids movie-of-the-week sap.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Too content with its own "maturity" and "restraint," yet it invaluably offers Christie for audiences in delicate contemplation, and chaste consummation

| Aug 27, 2009

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Christie is brilliant as steely but brittle Fiona, a woman who knows her mind completely and yet, in the end, cannot hang on to it, while Pinsent eloquently portrays the gradual ebbing away of a partnership, as delicate and unstoppable as snow-melt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2008

Una bella historia de amor a merced de una enfermedad, filmada con delicadeza por Sarah Polley y sensiblemente interpretada por Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent y Olympia Dukakis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2008

A beautifully acted, poignant film about a man who slowly loses his wife to Alzheimer's.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 2, 2008

A complex series of relationships revolve around a nursing home romance.

| Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2008

Julie Christie as an Alzheimer's afflicted wife achieves the perfect psychological mixture of despair, mystery, rebellion against the unappreciated devotion that has been her lot in married life, and an ultimate odd but eloquent personal liberation.

| Dec 27, 2007

Hallmark card presentation of the onset of Alzheimer's. Totally sincere and totally unrealistic.

| Dec 20, 2007

Christie (with whom Polley acted in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing) is still a radiant presence at 66 and she rivets us to the screen.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2007

Of the four brilliant performances that sustain it, the standout is by Julie Christie, ravishing at 66, who communicates as much with utter stillness as in her beautifully articulated lines.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Memorable Alzheimer's drama OK for teens and up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2007