If you go into Paterson expecting a high-octane film, then you will be sorely disappointed. Instead, once again Jim Jarmusch has created an interesting film that is largely a character study of two everyday people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2025

Paterson‘s characters are endlessly fascinating, but what makes the film captivating is how Jarmusch interweaves them throughout this world.

| Original Score: A | Aug 20, 2024

Jarmusch’s approach is minimalist yet subtly robust. His structure resembles stanzas of a poem, and they are filled with relaxed easygoing rhythms that sweep you through from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

A lovely, original, naturalistically paced dreamscape, this is a film where a bus driver/poet observes the mundane yet beautiful moments of life.

| Jun 22, 2022

Paterson contains an effortless quality that rolls off the screen; the viewer settles into a steady and exquisite demonstration of the filmmaker's control over his craft and the depth of his artistry.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 5, 2022

This is a sweet celebration of life's small joys and its oddity, and Adam Driver is mesmerizing as a poetic bus driver. Apparently Jarmusch intended Paterson to be an antidote to the modern action film and it's truly a welcome respite.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 4, 2021

What could have been insufferable turns into a beautifully rendered portrait of people who find beauty and art in every day life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2021

Driver gives a very quiet and soft-spoken, but emotive performance as the titular character.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 30, 2021

It's not just un-cinematic, it's also overlong and uneventful.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 5, 2020

It's an experiment, to be sure, and while I would call the experiment a success I'm not sure the end goal was one worth pursuing...Call this a slight recommendation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Paterson is the best film of 2016.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

A movie about small things, "Paterson" is all about finding the beauty in simplicity and the little ways we're all creative. Almost nothing major happens. But that's the entire point.

| Original Score: A | Jul 2, 2020

What makes Paterson such a wonderfully coherent and satisfying film ... is its cinematic conceit: we are seeing the world as it is perceived by ... the protagonist[.]

| Jun 30, 2020

It is as if each shot were a poem dedicated to the subtlety of the seventh art and to the small details of simple things. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

Paterson is quaint, charming, curious, deeply engaging and one of the finest profiles of the artistic mind that I've seen in recent memory.

| May 1, 2020

Paterson flirts with surrealism, but never leaves the viewers hanging.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Paterson may end up being one of the definitive films of our time, a careful character study of a man who makes a tough job look easy, kinda like Jarmusch himself.

| Jan 15, 2020

Paterson's underlying message -- that art is everywhere and for everyone -- is one we could all stand to hear.

| Nov 22, 2019

Overall, Paterson is a captivating piece of filmmaking with [Adam] Driver delivering a suitably amazing performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2019

Paterson contains a wonderful mundane portrait of the American city, its streets, its factories, its houses, gardens and parks, and its people. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 20, 2019