Haarla and Borisov are excellent as the protagonists of this strangely appealing love story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2022

Very little happens between these two unhappy souls. And then, as the end nears, I found myself hoping it would keep going. Go figure. It takes quite some skill to be that crafty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2022

Haarla and Borisov demonstrate impeccable timing and expertly tiny movements as they warm up to one another. Its something like love but without either sex or romance. And its a joy to behold.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2022

The film’s central theme of overcoming otherness and finding common ground across personal, cultural and geographical borders seems like a balm for the soul in these tumultuous times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2022

This unconventional love story — which plays like a Richard Linklater film set in the Arctic circle — is a total charmer, and will have you reaching for an Interrail ticket immediately afterwards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2022

The performances are first-rate. The actors take what they need but otherwise depend on the truth of the characters.

| Apr 8, 2022

It’s the rapport between the actors – or the anti-rapport, to start with – that makes this such a winning diversion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2022

For a while, you wonder whether the movie will become a thriller about the perils of solo travel, particularly for single females. But the intimacy of director Kuosmanen’s Dogme 95-inspired camerawork hints that something more is happening here.

| Mar 17, 2022

The movie has an unhurried rhythm, not slow, but unpressured. It’s a visual equivalent of the clacking of the railroad tracks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2022

Its premise is a fundamentally corny one we’ve seen a million times before... but filmmaker Kuosmanen and his two lead actors camouflage that well in naturalistic behavior and psychological depth.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2022

“Compartment No. 6” takes people and places you might wish to escape on first blush and makes you glad by the end that you’ve spent time with them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2022

A wry, heartfelt study of two characters who can’t escape their entwined fate, forged within the confines of cramped quarters and the peculiar intimacies of Russian train travel.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2022

However you take it, it's a small but sure triumph.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 2, 2022

There's nothing particularly surprising about the story, but Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen finds a way to make an old tale feel new.

| Jan 28, 2022

It's an improbably beautiful film about strangers on a train coming to terms with each other as they make peace with their troubled selves.

| Jan 28, 2022

The detailed textures and claustrophobic sense of place -- and the terrifically genuine performances of Haarla and Borisov -- ensure that Compartment No. 6 never feels artificial or pre-programmed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 27, 2022

Compartment No. 6 has an always energetic sense of place even when it's keeping to the confined space of its title room.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 26, 2022

The movie sinks, fast and deep, under the weight of dramatic shortcuts, overemphatic details, undercooked possibilities, unconsidered implications.

| Jan 26, 2022

Compartment No. 6 could hardly be more conventional or less audacious, and that's fine.

| Original Score: B | Jan 26, 2022

There is a plainness and simplicity that really lends a lot of power to it.

| Jan 26, 2022