Combining magical elements - Enoch is assisted by the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot - this one projects an irreverent spirit and may appeal to fans of Anthony Minghella's Truly, Madly, Deeply.

| Jun 10, 2020

The film can't feel as natural, given its script's adherence to a well-worn formula. Still, it does take on a lightheaded, dreamlike quality that makes it gently romantic.

| Jan 9, 2019

It might be a meta-commentary on the characters -- but it feels far too earnest for that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2019

... the film isn't all that bad. It just requires an affinity for saccharine and a certain level of suspension of disbelief...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 28, 2017

"Restless" exudes the maturity that eludes Mr. Van Sant's previous fusions of youth and death. It's too bad he still hasn't learned to shower his female leads with the same adoring attention he lavishes on his male ones.

| Oct 7, 2015

This movie pretends it's about death -- our couple meets because Enoch crashes funerals, a literary device that has no relevance here -- but it never scratches past the perfect pale void faces of its leads.

| Original Score: D | Jun 23, 2013

Better stock up on tissues.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2013

A slight tale whose self-conscious indie quirks fail to lift it beyond familiar Disease of the Week formula.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2012

The couple's ability to see through how people perceive courageous behavior in the face of death forms the heart of the film. Van Sant illustrates that those trappings usually exist only to make the ones who are not sick feel better about themselves.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 30, 2012

Had Restless been a silent film it may have been some kind of stylish masterpiece.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 3, 2011

Gus Van Sant staggers back and forth across that line like a drunk with a busted stopwatch.

| Dec 1, 2011

Driven by the brave performances of its two young leads, this tender and emotionally resonant film thoughtfully challenges our ideas surrounding death.

| Dec 1, 2011

A tenderly stylistic evocation of young love wrapped inside a New Wave-esque bundle of wistfulness and nervous energy, and a well constructed little diorama. But one whose elicited feelings do not, alas, linger.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 29, 2011

Gus Van Sant's film bristles with an ethereal quality as we are drawn into a reality in which time seems to be suspended. First time screenwriter Jason Lew has penned a poignant and heartfelt story

| Nov 28, 2011

With a tighter grip on proceedings, one imagines Restless would have Van Sant troubling the Academy all over again. As it stands, it's a sweet, gentle film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 27, 2011

Restless shares with some of Van Sant's best work its gritty Portland, Ore., locations and a washed out palette. Unfortunately, that's all it shares with it.

| Original Score: 83/100 | Nov 25, 2011

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 20, 2011

[S]cramble[s] to cram the 'quirky' back into the please-god-kill-me-and-save-me-from-yet-another-ridiculous-teen-romance... I'm really sick of stories in which women are sacrificed to men's personal journeys.

| Oct 25, 2011

"Listless" might have been a better title...

| Oct 23, 2011

With Restless, Van Sant seems to be aiming for somewhere in between the art house and the cineplex by delivering a movie that is as heartwarming as it is strange.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2011