This is a poetic version, but genuinely felt and elegantly expressed.

| Feb 13, 2021

The pain of [Davies'] latter-day distance from his home town comes through poignantly.

| Oct 5, 2020

A pompous, ostentatious mishmash of artful lyricism and egotistical self-aggrandizement.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 7, 2019

If I seem overly harsh towards a film that I'm essentially recommending, it's only because I expect more from the director.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A visual poem.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 26, 2011

Terence Davies, England's greatest living filmmaker, has released only six features, and this one is his first documentary, a mesmerizing and eloquent essay about his native Liverpool.

| Dec 16, 2009

The film invites a reverie. It inspired thoughts of the transience of life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2009

... a wistful, funny, satirical, angry and forgiving portrait.

| May 12, 2009

Like a long, bickering marriage or a favorite pair of well worn out shoes, UK combo filmmaker and nostalgia buff Davies can't seem to resolve his unsettling but addictive love/hate thing with the city that informed his imagination for better or worse.

| Apr 21, 2009

Davies has carried out the duty of expansive memoirs. Instead of high-tailing it away from the rigors of reminiscence, he pushes headlong through them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2009

This personal and poetic meditation on England's portside city of Liverpool is a nostalgic journey through archival footage accompanied by an eclectic collection of lyrical ramblings by writer/director Terence Davies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2009

Terence Davies may be a single-subject filmmaker, with that subject his own life, much as some writers write different versions of the same story. It doesn't matter. It's in the rich and detailed texture of the telling that his art lies.

| Mar 20, 2009

It is an undeniably slow film, but there is something enchanting in its pace, as it gradually immerses you in its imagery, its soundtrack and its otherworldly quality.

| Mar 13, 2009

Davies is a master of melancholy self-reflection. This film sheds light on where his feature films came from, as much as the city he lost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2009

Past and present are summoned up, and contrasted, yet their emotional impact is intermingled in a collage of archival images and footage, and newly filmed material, set against music, sound and the filmmaker's voice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2009

The filmmaker's passion, coupled with a sly sense of humor, suggest that this is a film that will resonate long after it's over.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2009

All the images are stunning, but the film's star turns belong to the children who gather on front stoops and play among the city's derelict buildings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2009

With this film, Terence Davies proves not only that he can find a story in even a place like Liverpool, but that he can make it poetic and interesting

| Mar 5, 2009

... a filmic ode to Liverpool that is both elegiac and cantankerous in the way of all old men looking back.

| Feb 24, 2009