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Beyond the Hills Reviews
It's about as simultaneously thrilling and draining as anything that's come since the heyday of Ingmar Bergman.
| Mar 17, 2021
A testament to the dangerous extremes of both faith and love, it's a powerful testament on the dangerous combination of ignorance, blind faith, and poverty.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2020
[Mungiu's] very specific brand of formalism traps the characters in a theological prison of their own design, and the results are as fascinating to watch as they are painful.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019
The fact that Mungiu pulls this off so naturally is what makes Beyond the Hills a near-masterpiece.
| Original Score: 8.1/10 | Jun 29, 2019
Mungiu's Beyond the Hills delicately explores a highly controversial, contemporary subject with the care and intelligence that it necessitates.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019
The film's greatest strength is its constant insistence on ambiguity. Almost nothing is explicit and as a result, everything the viewer thinks, feels and judges is based on inference, allusion and their own prejudices and convictions.
| Jan 30, 2019
Another bravura exercise from Mungiu in painstaking, atmospheric filmmaking. In fact, it's almost like a silent movie with its thematic simplicity and painterly classicism.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2019
Director Cristian Mungiu has practically single-handedly put modern Romanian cinema on the map.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 14, 2018
This is a deeply compassionate, painful, and thoughtful film. It creates a dilemma with no evident solution.
| Aug 8, 2018
The Romanian New Wave continues to produce impressive work, even under an unsympathetic government.
| Feb 21, 2018
Beyond the Hills is gorgeously austere and often exhilarating in its its slow-burning atmosphere of dread and sorrow. It
| Jan 9, 2018
The skillful handling of such radical yet delicate material in the film's final act is quite a sight to see.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2017
A profound and bruising study of a country whose long-suffering inhabitants are cowed into incommunication by various forms of repressive dictatorship, it's another muted triumph from director Cristian Mungiu.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2017
Beyond the Hills is a film of great formal rigour and a furious indictment of religion as an instrument of patriarchal oppression.
| Aug 29, 2017
In lesser hands than Mungiu's, the film might have become a simple indictment of religious orthodoxy. . . The story told by [Director Cristian] Mungiu, one of the best contemporary directors in Europe, is more complicated, and interesting.
| Aug 21, 2017
This is more than an exorcism gone bad, though it does.
| Aug 9, 2017
Cristian Mungiu's film Beyond the Hills is the best Romanian film ever imported to American screens and that's saying a good deal.
| Apr 13, 2016
The film's final act is joltingly effective. It just takes forever to get there, presumably by design.
Full Review | Apr 28, 2015
A subtle, heartbreaking film that rewards the patient viewer.
| Jun 27, 2014