As thrillingly good equal to its sister films, Seidl tantalizes here by subverting our expectations based on his previous work, giving us a modestly sweet afterglow after we've gnawed our way through the sour and sublime.

| Aug 29, 2019

Far weaker than the two previous chapters, Hope gropes hopelessly for provocation, but instead finds only tedious, highfalutin banality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2019

As a scalding film experience about modern womanhood and its discontents, it has no peer this year.

| Apr 12, 2016

Funny, tense conclusion to Seidl's provocative Paradise trilogy

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2014

Seidl is one of the masters of "happy-sad" storytelling. This time, however, his world lacks structural and emotional clarity.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 13, 2014

This is, by some distance, the best movie of the three, and it showcases the impeccable symmetry of [Seidl's] compositions, while retaining his compulsion to wag a finger in your face.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 20, 2013

Paradise: Hope quickly rights itself and becomes lighter, looser, and more sympathetically observed than anything Seidl has done previously, ending a grim trilogy on a brighter note than expected.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2013

If this trilogy capper doesn't leave the contusions the other films have, it remains a necessary salve, particularly if you dare to binge-watch.

| Dec 17, 2013

Seidl's camera always stands back to let the women's environments and their orientation within them tell their stories in a way that can inspire compassionate recognition.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 17, 2013

Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in "Paradise: Hope" is poignant.

| Dec 16, 2013

The third and final film in Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise" trilogy navigates a narrow space between tenderness and cruelty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2013

'Hope' doesn't lead to anything in particular, and so all those patient takes and slow, observational moments amount to what, exactly? We can't help but feel that by comparison with..Paradise: Hope ends up somewhat toothless.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2013

The most hopeful - and the best - of this solid and unsettling series.

| Dec 5, 2013

An overweight 13-year-old girl's exploration of her sexual yearnings while attending a "diet camp."

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2013

This tale of a creepy pedophilic relationship is the most tender, nuanced, and deeply felt picture Seidl has ever made.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 5, 2013

The lightest and best part of Ulrich Seidl's trilogy about three women chasing elusive rewards, the film concludes this often distancing enterprise on an uncharacteristically compassionate note.

| Dec 2, 2013

A disappointing conclusion to an ambitious project.

| Dec 2, 2013

Austrian weirdmeister Ulrich Seidl's sometimes grueling but consistently compelling Paradise trilogy concludes on a surprisingly wistful, tender note.

| Dec 2, 2013

A minimalist look at the confusions facing teens but especially at the struggle made by a middle-aged doctor against the demands of his own hormones.

| Original Score: B | Nov 22, 2013

The film stands alone as a tender portrait of adolescence at its most vulnerable and how we manage to survive it, even when surrounded by predators and wolves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2013