"Carol uses its beautiful winter atmosphere to guide the audience through a holiday journey of romance, heartbreak, and longing."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

Carol is arguably my pick for the most beautiful film I’ve seen in 2015. By choosing to focus primarily on setting and theme to drive the story, the true colors of this film are able to shine more clearly...

| Aug 2, 2024

I loved it. I’m so glad that I saw it and that it exists in the world. It has definitely moved representations of lesbians forward, and I hope that the next time a movie like this is made, more viewers will be better able to feel it.

| May 6, 2024

A beautifully made film and moving love story

| Jan 8, 2024

As premature as it might be to say in a review for an initial theatrical run, Carol more than earns the right of comparison to Brief Encounter in terms of quality. Frankly, it’s one of the new great romantic films.

| Nov 15, 2023

Todd Haynes delves into the noir-kissed world of Patricia Highsmith...

| Aug 26, 2023

These are fractions of instances that straight people can’t see, but inside, we feel our hearts pounding and our minds racing with possibility. That’s what Carol—and the holiday season for that matter—are all about.

| Dec 5, 2022

... An extraordinary film in every sense. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 2, 2022

Carol is one of the better film adaptions in recent memory and has truly withstood the test of time.

| Sep 26, 2022

A masterpiece of melancholy longing that manages to miraculously avoid being devastatingly tragic or dramatic.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 30, 2022

Haynes, an experimental filmmaker whose dramatic work may seem straightforward yet is anything but, knows just how to fold his audience into a moment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022

Todd Haynes and Phyllis Nagy created a compelling, extraordinary tale about love and its meanders in life. The time passes, but Carol remains the most critical romantic story with a happy ending. For me, it will always mean a lot.

| Original Score: A | Feb 13, 2022

Poised, elegant and desperately moving, it's yet another tour de force turn from an actress who has clearly defined herself as the best of her generation.

| Sep 29, 2021

Veering toward moments of heightened drama, Haynes shows measured restraint in maintaining the focus that essentially this is a story about love, rather than heading into cheaper plot devices.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

A gorgeous, complicated and absolutely captivating film.

| Original Score: A | Aug 10, 2021

The second time I watched Carol all I did was cry. I cried over the scarves and the love-seats, the brooches and Rooney's pinned-up bob, the way Cate Blanchett unfolds her body like angel's wings

| Jul 2, 2021

In the end, the décor, costumes and settings are little more than a backdrop for an affair that does not follow "a prescribed path."

| Feb 26, 2021

A wonderful and all-too-rare film.

| Feb 9, 2021

An entertaining endeavor and a poignant message about love's ability to overcome adversity.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Unreasonably chilly and isolating, the central romance never feels believable, but Blanchett's titular performance is a wonderful portrait of manipulation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2020