Look beyond your limited worldview, Limbo says, and see the bigger, more beautiful, and more complicated picture.

| Nov 2, 2021

A wonderful comedy that savours its remote environment while keeping its subjects at the centre of the story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Sharrock has adopted a Keatonesque deadpan aesthetic that feels arrived at via a few different places.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

A film as sweet as it is sad, as pertinent as it is absurd, Limbo is an experience where not much seems to happen but where little things mean the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2021

Desperate, but also wryly comic, as if writer-director Ben Sharrock sees them as stuck in a real-life Waiting For Godot, stranded in a starkly beautiful no-man's-land, hoping against hope that it will prove more hospitable than the ones they left behind.

| May 14, 2021

I couldn't get facets of this drama out of my head, certain sequences so eloquently masterful it's likely they'll be burned into my brain forever.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 5, 2021

It's with Abbas Kiarostami's eye for the beauty of natural landscapes and a wry grasp of the often-Kafkaesque asylum process that Sharrock creates a portrait of dual isolation.

| May 2, 2021

Set on a remote Scottish isle, Ben Sharrock's second feature maintains a lightness of touch, despite its serious underpinnings.

| May 1, 2021

The film finds moments of grace, levity, and unexpected beauty.

| May 1, 2021

Sharrock demonstrates extraordinary skill in mining this material both for comedy and tragedy, sometimes simultaneously.

| Apr 30, 2021

Sharrock's tale feels almost like a small miracle with its defiant stance against exploitative hopelessness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2021

With a pleasing bit of cinematic sleight-of-hand, the movie grows more expansive once Omar determines to expand his horizon.

| Apr 30, 2021

At times, "Limbo" can feel confining in ways that exceed the confining circumstances of its characters. But the story of Omar deepens and amplifies the film's second half...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2021

The climax of the film acts as an emotional triumph. Unfortunately, much of its victory is in spite of itself.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 30, 2021

A movie born of our times but destined to outlive them, it deserves to cross the threshold from festival darling to audience favorite.

| Apr 30, 2021

There are moments of deadpan comedy and whimsy woven throughout writer/director Ben Sharrock's outstanding drama, "Limbo," but mostly this story about refugees on a fictional Scottish island is heartbreaking.

| Apr 30, 2021

Limbo may be a smiling teardown of any society that actively facilitates the deportation of its most vulnerable inhabitants, but there's a wildness in the film's eyes... that betrays the political message underneath.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Sharrock's gentle drama is nestled in understatements and tender moments, a stirring human story that plays out globally every day.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2021

[Writer-director Ben Sharrock] knows how to effectively goose the proceedings from naturalism into the forlornly humorous, a tone he maintains with welcome discipline most of the time.

| Apr 28, 2021

It's tempting - and not entirely inaccurate - to call this oddly moving little film a comedy-drama, but if so, it's a dark one at that.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2021