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Graduation Reviews
The film is funny in a kind of state-of-the-nation, burn-it-all-down way and wrought with care throughout, but two hours of this is ultimately too much — we’ve seen this terrain with fresher eyes many times over.
| Jan 12, 2023
Bacalaureat draws Romeo's dilemma as a father, as a man, as a Romanian really well. It's an amazingly scripted film that contains all the nuances of the sticky human existence.
| Feb 14, 2021
A remarkable film.
| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020
For those with the patience, GRADUATION does have something to say.
| May 1, 2019
An intelligent, elegant, morally ambiguous, and quite frankly brilliant tale of corruption and questioning whether it can ever be justified.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2019
The times in which emotion breaks through (as it certainly did in 4 months) are the times you should be sure you are paying attention.
| Feb 21, 2019
Graduation resists easy resolutions or satisfying conclusions. It's a cinematic moral conundrum, raising numerous questions and answering very few of them.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 13, 2018
Mungiu knows Romania is in sore need of critiquing. The weird thing is, Graduation provides no excitement from such a critique.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2018
Cristian Mungiu is unquestionably a master dramatist and master commander of cinematic grammar, and Graduation is one of the most formally accomplished films of recent years.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018
Graduation quickly becomes a commencement not for the student heading to college, but the father who's devoted his life to ensuring it happens.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 12, 2018
For anyone willing to follow along it's a stunning look at generational clashes, trauma, and corruption all via the same restrained story.
| Original Score: 3.9/5 | Aug 28, 2018
Even as it deals with big themes, the film is never pushy or melodramatic, letting events unfold to gently convey a powerfully challenging message.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 30, 2018
Brilliantly calibrated to wring maximum tension from the circumstances, Mungiu's tale is as revealing about parents and the pressure they put on children as it is about the state of the nation in which it is set.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2018
Demolishing proof of the toxicity of good intentions. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2018
Mungiu delivers yet another profound, cinematic exploration of ordinary iniquity, brilliantly executed and well deserving of the Best Director Award received at Cannes in 2016.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 26, 2018
The movie pulls off an almost documentary, social-realist feel, but it includes hints of the menacing, the unknown.
| Dec 29, 2017
The events it depicts are far from "dramatic," but with intelligence and skill [director Cristian] Mungiu uncovers the complexity of the everyday.
| Dec 21, 2017
It's a quietly devastating portrait of good intentions unraveling in the face of systemic corruption.
| Dec 19, 2017
Graduation is assuredly a slow burn that revels in subtlety and true to life human interaction, but it builds to a fitting ending that both emotionally resonates and feels slightly predictable
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2017