A playfully intelligent feature, Like Someone In Love is certainly an enjoyable film, especially for those that are fans of Kiarostami's work.

| Aug 7, 2019

This is essential cinema, the kind of stirring, intelligent filmmaking that restores one's faith in movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

It's a humble, moving film that will seep into your skin and stay with you for days. The extended, stationary opening shot is an immediate jaw-dropper.

| Jun 21, 2019

Like Someone in Love might initially feel elusive and trying, but the more you give of yourself to the movie, the more it gives back.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 15, 2019

Kiarostami reminds us of cinema's parameters, his work is deliberately elliptical, and he provokes the viewer into co-creating the film's narrative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2019

[Director Abbas Kiarostami] knows human folly knows no borders.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2018

A quietly mournful drama, its potentially sordid pieces making a bittersweet puzzle.

| Aug 30, 2018

This broken character has the wisdom of machines but not of the human heart. Which can't be said of Kiarostami, who navigated a world of technology and miscommunication and plumbed it for all its complex drama.

| Aug 28, 2018

The one thing that's for sure is that this masterly filmmaker is sufficiently open-minded to work wherever he chooses without compromising the integrity of his questions.

| Apr 4, 2018

... "Like Someone in Love" drags, summoning ghosts of better Kiarostami films to little impact.

| Feb 22, 2018

While the film doesn't have the complex ambiguity and thematic richness of its predecessor, it is a charming and unique addition to the Kiarostami canon.

| Oct 4, 2017

Favouring long, oblique takes, this is 'slow cinema' so slow that, an hour or so in, even one of its protagonists nods off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Tokyo, the ultimate modern metropolis, with its neon-lit commercial graffiti and buildings that look like a pastiche of everywhere and nowhere, is perfect for Kiarostami's story of closeness between strangers.

| Aug 21, 2017

A wonderful celebration of what it's like to be in love.

| Feb 2, 2017

There's a kind of purity in the melancholy of Takashi, a lonely old man who hires a hooker and ends up with a lost young woman who stirs paternal feelings...

| Jul 16, 2016

I was enraptured by Like Someone in Love, taken with a visual intelligence and thoughtfulness we seldom see onscreen. It's one hell of a riff.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

Kiarostami still possesses a remarkable knack for crafting vivid supporting characters from just a few details.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 3, 2014

It superbly plays out as an homage to Ozu family dramas.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 22, 2014

There's some artful fiddling with plot expectations, but the film's evident self-regard makes this a rather undergraduate provocation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2013

[An] infuriating - but also fascinating - effort ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2013