...one of the greatest films ever made.

| Apr 15, 2024

Winter Sleep is a distressing and desolating story about class differences, religious conflicts in a society that's predominately Muslim, and the inner contradictions of those who propose political correctness... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2023

There is great density within the richly spoken dialogue that endlessly flows throughout the film, but it's almost as if the ideas that flourish through spoken thoughts end up nearing drowning the purely cinematic aspects of the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2020

Here we find not only a penetrating film [adapted from Anton Chekhov's work], but an epitome of loneliness and the human condition, as well as the moral questioning of good and evil that divides the social strata. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2020

With a running time of almost three hours, one might expect Winter Sleep to induce exactly that in the viewer, but as the intrigue evolves and the characters deepen, the drama is never less than compelling.

| Aug 8, 2019

Ceylan's latest is a claustrophobic chamber piece spun out into a vast, rich and beautifully intricate tapestry.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2019

If the film is in part about winter doldrums, it conveys this ennui perfectly.

| Aug 31, 2018

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep is in fact two films. It is more than fair to judge one of these films as great and the other as a bit boring.

| Aug 28, 2018

Its intentions are admirable, but with an unrealistically wide aim and a compulsively verbal approach, the desperation a viewer feels when he checks to find there are still hours on the clock is also very real.

| Aug 3, 2018

It's a claustrophobic, bitter, terribly long movie that doesn't reward the viewer's heart or patience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2017

Winter Sleep progresses Ceylan's ever-evolving narrative and aesthetic strategy into what proves his most emotional and dramatic work.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 6, 2016

The formidable running time will doubtless deter many, which is a shame: Winter Sleep is never less than richly engrossing, even if some scenes, stretched too long, take on a didactic, even slightly hectoring tone.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 26, 2016

It's possible to admire it, but it's hard to imagine anyone truly enjoying it.

| Mar 1, 2016

There's no melodrama in this film, only beautifully observed moments worthy of Chekhov and Bergman.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 18, 2015

Ceylan's deeply observant, quiet epic might leave you detached at first, but this is the kind of work that aims to creep up on and haunt you in the long haul, in many not instantly recognizable ways.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2015

This well-observed drama takes its time telling its narrative, as it adroitly gets to concerns over the human condition.

| Original Score: A | Jun 24, 2015

Such miserable people; why should we care? Maybe because Ceylan does.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 21, 2015

"The length allows Ceylan to really sink into the characters and their complicated motives; at times, watching "Winter Sleep" is like reading a novel."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2015

The actual narrative may sometimes trudge along like a traveler braving a blizzard without snowshoes, but Ceylan makes the smallest of moments feel like apocalyptic harbingers.

| Feb 10, 2015

The easy gag about the 196-minute "Winter Sleep" is that it's so good it makes 3  1/2 hours feel like two, but that's no joke.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 29, 2015