The inconsistency of the situations is only enhanced by the alienation of the dialogue. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 2, 2025

No character functions like a human being. None of them make decisions or tell you things, and the dialogue is so sterile.

| Jul 13, 2024

Manipulative. Clever, but manipulative.

| Jul 13, 2024

Still, this is a welcome and unusual movie, and Gere gives a compelling performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2024

This drama about love, loss, and self-discovery distills the complexity of grief.

| Jun 24, 2024

The movie's entertainment is based on Gere's performance and he never disappoints.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 18, 2024

Richard Gere delivers a sincere, moving performance as a father who mourns the loss of a son he never had the chance to know.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 16, 2024

A remake of an Israeli film with the same scriptwriter and director (Savi Gabizon), Longing is mannered and progressively ridiculous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Longing ultimately becomes a test of patience, not just for the audience, but for all the people the hero offends on his unique journey into fatherhood.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2024

We can tell we’re meant to be moved, but at least in the U.S./Canadian cultural context, it seems not only unusual, but possibly disrespectful of the dead.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 11, 2024

Nothing would solve any of Longing‘s issues, which has been lost in translation from its apparently revered Israeli version, now a pile of pointless insanity

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 11, 2024

Though the action has been moved to Canada, [Savi] Gabizon’s twisty story of grief and discovery remains largely the same. So it’s odd that the biggest problem with Longing is that it feels like its tone got lost in translation.

| Jun 10, 2024

It seems odd that given the chance to remake his own film, Gabizon didn’t choose to make his protagonist more sympathetic or change the scenes that seem so out of tune with contemporary audiences.

| Jun 10, 2024

Longing is a convoluted film that does a good job setting up a compelling drama and then fails to appropriately answer the questions that it poses.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2024

Richard Gere’s powerfully understated portrayal elevates this otherwise uneven melodrama, which evolves into an offbeat and somewhat awkward mystery with twists both compelling and calculated.

| Jun 7, 2024

“Longing” is a manifestation of how grief makes emotions overtake reason and the inherent resilience that sometimes requires you to come back to reality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2024

Peculiar. The situations are absurd like his power over others and offbeat, unlikely details distract.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 7, 2024

[Gere's] performance is authentic ... but the same cannot be said of the melodrama surrounding the actor...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2024

Longing, presumably intended as a cathartic meditation on grief, simply feels absurd.

| Jun 6, 2024

A tonally bizarre and dramatically inert feature that is so detached from baseline human emotion it might as well be the fever dream of Artificial Intelligence.

| Jun 6, 2024