In more ways than one, the spectre of death hangs heavily over More Than Ever, and Atef does not seek to comfort the viewer. But she does examine the marital and gendered responses and rifts to disease and grief that are rarely explored on screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Vicky Krieps and the late Gaspard Ulliel star in More Than Ever, Emily Atef’s quietly profound drama about an ill woman seeking comfort in the face of death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2024

This is Krieps’ show, another elegantly virtuosic, intelligent turn that, in this case, imbues sickness with dignity so that every strained grasp for breath feels like a victory for autonomy.

| Oct 23, 2023

In many ways, More Than Ever is as much a film about life and death as it is about nature and civilization.

| Oct 7, 2023

Krieps and Ulliel give weight and texture to the couple’s push and pull.

| Oct 5, 2023

This is a compelling and moving drama about how people cope differently with the inevitability of death.

| Oct 4, 2023

Even in the smallest gestures, plot beats, or dialogues, More than Ever resists the temptation of melodrama... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2023

Some sequences between the lyrical and existential don't always accomplish their objective, yet, they demonstrate Atef's audacity in defying formality and the obvious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 28, 2023

A frontal and sensitive reflection upon death. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2023

Not necessarily bowled over by what I was seeing, this is not a dislikable drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2023

Emily Atef’s film deserves the highest praise for telling a complex, layered story about the soul-searching of a woman, without ever becoming circular, self-referential, or self-indulgent.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 13, 2023

Despite its emotional honesty, Emily Atef’s film has few penetrating insights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2023

Rather than with a Hollywood feelgood glimmer of optimism, the decision to close with a measure of ecstasy feels far more fitting

| Jan 27, 2023

Soulful and moving, this drama set in France and Norway grapples knowingly and subtly with enormous questions about mortality and self-determination.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 24, 2023

What do the dying owe the living? Director Emily Atef answers with one word: honesty. "More Than Ever is suffused with both romance and melancholy, yet it never becomes a melodrama."

| Jan 23, 2023

Ultimately, the key to a meaningful death is, the film argues, the same as in life: being true to yourself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2023

More than Ever is certainly not a fun-filled evening at the cinema but it's a well-crafted piece of film-making that will continue to resonate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2023

While More Than Ever’s story is made all the more poignant by the tragic death of Ulliel, there is still a lot to admire here, including Krieps’s mesmerising screen presence and her ability to inhabit vastly different characters with incredible ease.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2023

[A] poignant meditation on the limits of romance and the reality of terminal illness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2023

Strong performances and beautifully shot, but not really much meat on the bone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2023