There couldn’t be a more poignant climax in such a composed film.

| Sep 21, 2023

Tsai Ming-Liang’s latest feature is a quiet treasure. By completely eschewing subtitles for any of the conversations between its characters, Days requires the viewer to pay attention to the nuances of body language.

| Nov 2, 2022

The meditative quality of Tsai Ming-liang’s Days is so serene, so calming, so capable of lulling one into a dissociative daze that it quietly sneaks up to fill you with overwhelming sadness.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 22, 2022

Tsai Ming-liang's “Days” beautifully personifies Abbas Kiarostami’s sound theory that “cinema is only half made on the screen.”

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

One of the most inconsequential and boring films I've seen in a while. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 26, 2022

Tsai Ming-liangs largely dialogue-free Days speaks volumes, and Grasshoppers excellent home video release highlights the aesthetic and tonal complexity of its minimalist approach.

| Mar 4, 2022

There is a sense of poetry to Days and the emotional core of the film is a powerful and relevant exploration of humans' need for connection

| Feb 22, 2022

Tsai is still firing off on all cylinders to create an experience truly unlike any other and one that lingers well after its conclusion.

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

Tsai Ming-liang's films are test cases of cinema. They require projection on large screens in dark auditoriums, even demand it, but quietly.

| Jan 18, 2022

Not only the most romantic film of the year, it's one of the most disarmingly emotional, a work of almost limitless beauty that only a true master could have conjured.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 29, 2021

initially the film, which definitely identifies as slow cinema, may frustrate, but Ming-liang's modus operandi becomes mesmerizing and ultimately very moving.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2021

Given its somewhat random origins, this modest drama demonstrates the artist's ability to make natural connections simply by observing the real world.

| Original Score: 76/100 | Sep 20, 2021

Days unfolds more like a languorous, listless daydream, haunting and yet elusive.

| Sep 15, 2021

For all its languorous non-action, Days might be the most emotionally forthright film that Tsai has ever made, boasting a sorrowful humanism that cuts right to the quick.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 15, 2021

A beautiful thing to have been given by one of the best living filmmakers, working here in an unusually sentimental mood.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 8, 2021

Tsai's latest film Days encapsulates not just a range of sensory experiences, but an entire spectrum of emotion, turning on a dime from a kind of blissful solace to profound loneliness in the space of the same frame.

| Sep 8, 2021

[The title] "Days" is really truth is advertising, because although it is only 2 hours and 6 minutes, it feels like days.

| Aug 21, 2021

There are no subtitles here, but subtitles also feel unnecessary because it's a really immersive experience.

| Aug 21, 2021

Quietly captivating with beautiful ASMR-like characteristics, 'Days' forgoes something that most contemporary cinema cannot do without: words.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2021

"Days" becomes such a resonant addition to Tsai's exhumed body of work because the filmmaker recognizes and embraces that uncharacteristically sentimental undertow.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 17, 2021