Prepare to be drawn into the deeply moving drama created by Song’s atmospheric world.

| Sep 20, 2024

Celine Song's debut film is a powerful metaphor for the two selves that exist within immigrants.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Celine Song announces herself as a major voice in cinema with Past Lives, her divine and complex reflection on enduring love.

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

It is a heartbreaking film that is so masterfully made and profoundly sincere that you want to stay in its world regardless of the emotional cost.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

As the credits roll and we’re given a moment to think about the movie in retrospect, it all just… hits different. And it’s what makes “Past Lives” all the more remarkable as a movie about the bittersweet intensity of love and longing.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Song composes this lyrical, melancholic film with the confidence of a director at the height of their career...[finding] pathos in the potentially mundane creases of a marital bed and a poor internet connection.

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

Past Lives is a film that leaves you breathless, and your heart aching, but in a good way. There’s something deeply comforting about knowing these feelings are universal.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 2, 2024

The characters are empty enough for me to imagine my own heartache in its own stead, but hazy characterisations and intriguing concepts aren’t enough to sustain a movie.

| Jul 1, 2024

The concept of In-Yun promises that after 8,000 years of connecting, they can marry and be together. Nora and Hae Sun are one life closer.

| May 25, 2024

Told with remarkable economy, and perfect performances...

| May 21, 2024

Hae Sung in "Past Lives" barely even exists beyond his nostalgic fixation on Nora, and Nora herself is only slightly more well-defined as a character because she has two relationships and the other characters only one.

| May 4, 2024

The writing was like poetry, I would highly recommend

| Apr 24, 2024

There’s so much to dig into and relate to, regardless of your background. Past Lives is quietly devastating.

| Apr 19, 2024

Celine Song’s Past Lives calls out to tired souls. It’s a beautifully made anti-fairytale movie, where the prince and the princess meet at the wrong place and time...

| Apr 17, 2024

To say too much about what happens in each episode would be to spoil the joy of encountering Song’s finely worked screenplay, which lets its characters' emotions glitter in the light.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 10, 2024

In this extraordinary Academy Award-nominated film “Past Lives,” the Korean concept of inyeon is used to lead viewers into believing that Nora and Hae-sung are destined to be together – if not in this lifetime, then in the future.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 8, 2024

The film is more literature than cinema, elevated mumblecore for graduate writing seminars, the opposite of, for instance, Hong Sangsoo, who makes low-budget films about writers and filmmakers without worrying about prizes...

| Mar 8, 2024

Never risking discomfort, Song flattens a real-life anecdote of any truly messy feelings, resulting in a tone poem quasi-romance that’s actually serene to a fault. It’s a good movie too chronically polite to achieve anything like greatness.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 4, 2024

Lee concentrates and expresses Nora's state of mind through a marvelous performance in which two feelings that initially seem impossible to transmit simultaneously come together... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2024

Past Lives is a treasure and will continue to be for many years.

| Feb 28, 2024