A succession of ever more difficult and rewarding films has turned up in recent years. But that good fortune releases nobody who cares about films from acclaiming work as original and triumphant as Persona.

| May 3, 2024

... A nifty, stylish and unforgettable hour and a half.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2023

Hardcore surrealism is rarely this enjoyable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2018

It remains as mysterious and troubling now as it ever was.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2017

[Bergman] gives us a movie within a movie, but he seems hardly to have made the enclosing movie, and then he throws away the inner one.

| Apr 7, 2016

One of the most complicated and radical films even Bergman ever made.

| Apr 23, 2014

[...]Persona marks a radical break for Bergman, an acknowledgment up front of the illusion and fundamental artifice of making movies.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 7, 2014

One of the screen's supreme works and perhaps Ingmar Bergman's finest film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 23, 2013

Wonderfully complex but warmly human, Bergman's drama is one of his very best.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 23, 2013

[A] masterpiece.

| Jul 23, 2013

Bergman blends a theatrical subjectivity with a tactile visual intimacy, with his characters, the objects close at hand, and the superb coastal landscape.

| Jul 23, 2013

Director Ingmar Bergman is modern cinema's most persistent observer of the human condition.

| Jul 23, 2013

Ingmar Bergman's best film, I suppose, though it's still fairly tedious and overloaded with avant-garde cliches.

| Jul 30, 2007

Bergman has come up with probably one of his most masterful films technically and in conception, but also one of his most difficult ones.

| Jul 30, 2007

Bergman at his most brilliant.

| Feb 9, 2006

Miss Ullmann and Miss Andersson just about carry the film -- and exquisitely, too.

| May 20, 2003

Bergman at his most atypically sensual, playful -- even Godardian.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2003

Made in the mid-60s, his film's intensity and mysteriousness remain undimmed despite the passage of time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 16, 2003

A film we return to over the years, for the beauty of its images and because we hope to understand its mysteries.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2001