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

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 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

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

Plausibility complaints always feel cheap, but “Longing” strains credulity well past the breaking point.

| Jun 6, 2024

It’s a film that’s full of love, but it’s an unhealthy love that’s detached from reality and the movie seems detached as well. It’s too maudlin to convey its own moral complexity and too foreboding to be sentimental.

| Jun 5, 2024