When the couple reaches middle age, their romance starts to feel real, documentary-esque, and — spoiler alert — that’s because it is. ... This turn is a delightful discovery that brings both ambiguity and urgency to their tale.

| Jul 28, 2024

Help, my soul has been shattered, and Heidi Ewing is the culprit! How she found a way to seamlessly weave her documentary background into this narrative feature film is simply astounding. My jaw is still on the floor.

| Jul 16, 2024

As intimate of a movie as you will find this year.

| Apr 4, 2024

I Carry You With Me is a visually striking film that is well-acted and filled to the brim with important messaging and memorable lines that I will never forget.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Jan 22, 2023

This is the kind of film that makes one’s heart grow three sizes while watching it and considering the amount of Grinch-like behavior in the United States in 2020, it’s difficult to think of something more necessary.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 13, 2022

Ewing, in her narrative debut, proves herself a gentile and empathetic director.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2022

A love story that transcends decades. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2021

A casual, meandering narrative only stands to strengthen the loving relationship between these two men. A warm, caring homage to real people.

| Sep 17, 2021

A fascinating - though at times uneven - blend of film styles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2021

[I Carry You with Me is] an affecting story of a journey of discovery. But to borrow a metaphor from the chef's-tale part of its plot, it may have bitten off more than it can comfortably chew.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2021

How many love stories can say they've spanned decades, crossed borders, and traversed genres?

| Aug 19, 2021

This flawed but powerful immigrant love story is worthy of the big screen.

| Aug 19, 2021

Though the subject of immigrants fleeing persecution is topical, what elevates Heidi Ewing's film is its finespun, artisanal quality.

| Aug 18, 2021

An unforgettable memoir reminiscent of Chloé Zhao's slice-of-life filmmaking, blending actors with non-actors to tell a love story based on real people and actual events.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 13, 2021

[Heidi Ewing's] made a movie to savor, for foodies and romantics alike, a portrait of the American dream where unconditional love is the light that shows you the way home, no matter how hard that road can be.

| Aug 6, 2021

The overall feeling here is ethereal, dreamy, moody, memory-like -- a more user-friendly Terence Malick vibe. It is a gorgeous film, and one that deserves to be seen on a giant screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2021

The audacity and generous spirit of "I Carry You With Me" will make viewers' hearts beat in time with the story's romantic leads.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 31, 2021

"I Carry you with Me" is a beautiful depiction of dreams, love, sacrifice, humanity, and hope.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 27, 2021

Elliptical and lyrical, a Proustian meditation on the lingering power of memory to shape our futures.

| Jul 22, 2021

Show us a present built on dreams and a future full of promises that will one day be fulfilled. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2021