Eternal Beauty is full of extremely talented people who aren't quite sure what they're doing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2020

The tone is darkly comedic, and that's the thing that makes it difficult. It's also the thing that makes it special. But the balancing act is so strange...not wholly successful but it is trying something.

| Oct 8, 2020

Hawkins is masterly, as always, in a role that demands she calibrate her energy differently in almost every scene.

| Oct 7, 2020

A bold but jarring piece of film-making.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2020

It's a far more nuanced, evolved take on mental illness than most films are capable of.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2020

An Angel at My Table it ain't.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 3, 2020

When the narrative voice falters here, the imaginative visual themes and the complex, layered performances hold our interest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 2, 2020

This is substantial and rewarding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2020

The movie devolves into a gloppy middle-age variant of "David and Lisa," a 1962 drama about young love in an institution.

| Oct 1, 2020

A film too eager to amuse, rather than simply observe.

| Oct 1, 2020

Directors dealing with mental illness can often make you wince, treating it as an invitation to all manner of visual hammery. Still in his twenties, Roberts is seasoned enough not to follow suit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2020

A brilliant Sally Hawkins stands atop Craig Roberts' perceptive look at mental illness. Small but beautifully formed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2020

Low on originality, big on charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2020

Creating a highly unusual and welcome look at schizophrenia that neither demonizes those with the condition nor patronizes them as suffering martyrs, British drama Eternal Beauty pulls off a tricky feat.

| Oct 21, 2019