The main attractions here are the settings and Riseborough’s delicately drawn but intensely focused interpretation of an enigmatic character who, played by a lesser actor, would have seemed like little more than a cipher.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

The reunion story set in the ancient Egyptian city is promising, alas Andrea Riseborough's immense talent is pretty much wasted in this meandering and tedious movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 3, 2023

Luxors thoughtful tone and leisurely pace wont be for everyone, but London-born filmmaker Durra has crafted a character study that rewards those who pay attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2022

Andrea Riseborough is a brilliant actress, and she gives a memorable performance in Luxor as Hana.

| Jan 10, 2022

...an intriguing reflection amid the ruins, on her past choices, recent traumatic experiences and present uncertain state...

| Jan 10, 2022

It's a masterful performance in a quietly powerful film.

| Jan 10, 2022

Zeina Durra's second feature is a work of subdued melancholy that gives an unusually pensive space to a woman's inner life.

| Jan 10, 2022

A beautiful, meditative film, Luxor will resonate especially with those who have had their own traumatic experience.

| Jan 10, 2022

Andrea Riseborough gives a luminescent performance in Zeina Durra's contemplative, hypnotic Luxor...

| Jan 10, 2022

You're completely engaged in trying to figure out what's troubling her and just what she's come to put to rest in Luxor.

| Jan 10, 2022

Andrea Riseborough conveys what her character is not able to say with a beautifully sensitive performance in the midst of timeless antiquities.

| Jan 10, 2022

The result is a closely observed drama that lingers like a Virginia Woolf novel, poignant and driven by internal, rather than external, action.

| Jan 10, 2022

Luxor is a contemplative character study: a subtle, human exploration of the wounds inflicted by military conflict, and the tentative efforts to heal them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2021

A movie that captures the gut-ache of ruminating on lost love, and the pain of an expiration date hanging over a brief encounter that maybe doesn't have to end.

| Original Score: B | Feb 21, 2021

An apparently slight, but deeply rewarding film, Luxor reveals its purpose slowly, in fragments of growing significance.

| Feb 21, 2021

Luxor offers a strange marriage of travelogue, post-traumatic stress disorder, spirituality and something like romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2021

A truly beautiful film, with stunning shots of the city and desert, and a journey of one woman's past trauma to future happiness.

| Feb 21, 2021

The dialogue is thin and the action is patchy, but Durra films Hana's travels-and the places that she visits-with an ardent attention that fuses emotional life with aesthetic and intellectual exploration.

| Jan 11, 2021

It contemplates the sand and the sadness, instead of really digging. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Dec 29, 2020

With very little spoken by Riseborough, she still manages to convey every deep feeling she has, dark or otherwise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2020