Imperfect, but more than enough to put Kogonada on the map.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2018

In its precision - the framing of each shot is as eloquent as the dialogue - and measured pacing, Columbus is a balm, a deep tissue massage for the soul.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2018

From all the formal elegance there emerges something subtly but profoundly affecting about family and friendship.

| Oct 5, 2018

This is a challengingly intelligent film, and Richardson is just superb.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2018

Brainy and sensual, cool and emotional, this wildly impressive feature debut is a coming-of-age drama that consistently defies expectation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2018

The movie's framings are uncannily beautiful. They remind us that films, like buildings, are formed by squares and spaces that catch light and shadow. The dialogue is a wonder too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2018

Columbus becomes a dark meditative quasi-romance, as we consider the term, "modernism with a soul."

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Columbus is extremely assured - beautiful, pristine work that is deliberate in its pacing, artfully and precisely framed in every moment, soulful and quietly moving without being overly sentimental.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2018

The quietly stirring, exquisitely photographed Columbus is an art house gem that beautifully illuminates not only the architecture of a small Indiana town, but also the characters who inhabit it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 27, 2017

Architecture has never been more romantic than in "Columbus," single-name director Kogonada's stunningly beautiful film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2017

Rarely will images of mighty concrete and stone dwellings set against tranquil waters or a gentle spring shower resonate so powerfully as those on display every day in the southern Indiana city of Columbus, captured so breathtakingly in the film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 8, 2017

[Columbus] unfolds in a series of grandly composed frames that range from fanatically symmetrical interior shots to boldly geometric exterior shots showcasing the local gems.

| Sep 7, 2017

Few contemporary American films operate on this level of aesthetic precision. In a first feature, yet.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2017

Kogonada in his impressive feature debut applies the principles of these architects to the compositions and structure of the film, a formal tour-de-force that eclipses its modest - though affecting and impeccably acted - narrative.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2017

Each shot is meticulously composed without appearing mannered; the characters, often seen from a distance, make up an integral part of the landscape they occupy rather than being framed picturesquely against it.

| Sep 1, 2017

Columbus is an assured first feature film by Kogonada, the single-named video essayist who makes film-analysis shorts about such auteurs as Ozu, Linklater, Tarkovsky, and Malick for the Criterion Collection and Sight & Sound magazine.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2017

The director's greatest strength lies in creating a mood. "Columbus" is melancholy without being morose, and talky without forced cleverness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 17, 2017

In its best moments, Columbus doubles as a reminder that films speak in a language all their own, and that language often cuts deeper than words.

| Aug 16, 2017

What's remarkable about this wondrously assured debut is that technique never overwhelms feeling, in part because Kogonada makes the two seem inextricably, harmoniously linked.

| Aug 10, 2017

Almost startling in how assured it is, synthesizing beautiful, controlled images with story and character.

| Aug 10, 2017