It’s Only the End of the World is an emotional, moving film which is as much about end-of-life reflections as it is about failures to communicate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2024

Though not to the standard of Dolan's earlier films, it makes for engaging viewing... especially if you like watching people scream at each other.

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

The only interesting part of the film is Dolan's choice of music cues, and that's more for their oddness than their quality.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 24, 2021

The film portrays a clichéd view of family dysfunction that is neither as revealing nor profound enough to maintain interest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2021

Only Dolan's stand-in -Gaspard Ulliel- survives this smorgasbord of overacting, mostly by staying quiet.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 28, 2020

However, there is not enough poignancy in the film to make it shine past similar dysfunctional family dramas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2019

It's an extraordinary film in many ways, but unusually for Dolan, the bad more often than not outweighs the good.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2019

It's stunning, stylised and intense, conveying the characters' histories, their memories, sadness and maybe love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2018

It remains an interesting and arresting film whose sound and fury may cloud some very good work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2018

Dolan has not lost a bit of his talent... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 29, 2017

Blood is supposedly thicker than water, but blood doesn't sustain a conversation, and neither blood nor love can fill the chasm that results from something as low-key as a lack of connection.

| Dec 28, 2017

It's Only the End of the World, though not a disaster, will be for many a disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2017

Only Marion Cotillard catches the eye in this unrewarding subtitled production.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2017

This pumped-up chamber drama feels like Dolan's stab at a Bergman movie, and it's predictably all cries and no whispers, with a few especially egregious sequences and a final shot with laughably pat symbolism.

| Sep 28, 2017

A stellar cast of French actors is mainly left to run lines and hyperventilate in Xavier Dolan's turgid yet occasionally affecting melodrama.

| Jul 3, 2017

While Dolan's previous film Mommy (2014) was hailed a masterpiece, somehow his follow-up, for me at least, doesn't live up to that kind of hype. It's not exactly surprising that the critical reaction so far has been mixed to say the least.

| Apr 27, 2017

Beyond a few gripping, throat-in-mouth scenes, driven by Cassel's ferocity, the movie never really gets you to believe that these people belong to the same family and aren't just actors pretending.

| Mar 28, 2017

It's not, as the mockery goes, the end of the world for Dolan, but it's hardly something we wish to remember this golden boy by, either.

| Mar 17, 2017

Plenty of emotion-dripping French family drama and eye-catching visuals to enjoy.

| Mar 13, 2017

It's Only the End of the World is a familial drama with emotions pitched to hysterical levels, and it's quite a trial to spend 97 minutes in its presence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2017