Slow maps out desires and dreams through minute glances, gestures, and silences. Watching it feels like falling in love.

| Mar 19, 2025

Marija Kavtaradze has made an admirable romantic drama – slow-moving but tender. And its power comes from the way it portrays asexual relationships.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Slow is a welcome fresh and modern spin on the star-crossed lovers format, zooming in from some universal perspective on an extremely intimate story of two people whose romance shouldn’t be all that complicated.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2024

Slow is a tender, crushing film about two people in love who struggle to make their relationship work. Elena and Dovydas are instantly smitten with each other but run into a roadblock when Dovydas clarifies that he’s asexual.

| Jul 7, 2024

The dialogue is an engaging mix of emotional honesty and trivial musings and the leads are as charismatic as they are natural, while the handheld camerawork emphasises the film's sense of authenticity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2024

The lack of subplots and supporting characters eventually becomes limiting but there are great performances, and you’ll admire Kavtaradze’s easygoing shooting style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2024

What keeps Slow buoyant is the rapport between its very convincing leads — the wry, saturnine Cicėnas and Grinevičiūtė, who exudes humour and no-nonsense sensuality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2024

With strong performances by Grinevičiūtė and Cicėnas, Elena and Dovydas’s relationship unfolds at a gentle, unhurried pace, their growing attraction indicated by small details that reward attentive viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2024

I took the film not as any sort of design for living, or facile explanation of anything, but as a design for communicating — honestly, humanely, painfully, sometimes — for the good of whatever relationships yours happen to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2024

It avoids obvious choices because it understands that romance, especially the ones that end, can be meaningful and significant. The film’s final scenes are wistful, the kind of bittersweet tone that many movie romances want but do not actually earn.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2024

[A} quietly affecting work, one of the more engaging romantic dramas to come along in a while.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 5, 2024

Playing with the genre trappings of a modern-day romance, “Slow” demands we assess what those familiar beats reveal about how it is we understand such seemingly self-evident concepts like “love,” “desire” and “commitment.”

| May 3, 2024

In shying away from more specific anxieties of modern love, one can’t help but think of all the things it’s avoiding in general by pushing the onscreen relationship to more interesting places.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2024

“Slow,” a relationship drama from Lithuania with a delicate touch, offers an understanding of intimacy that is rare in romance movies.

| May 2, 2024

The film works on some fundamental levels in spite of the rather amateurish camerawork and narrative pitfalls.

| May 1, 2024

A warm, tender and unflinchingly honest love story.

| Apr 29, 2024

Slow steadfastly remains a character-driven piece, homing in on the intricacies of its protagonists’ psychologies and engaging with their subtle emotional shifts as they become more intimate with one another.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2024

Slow demonstrates the impossibility of dissociating the intellectual, emotional, and physical spheres in emotional relationships. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2024

A singular and profound approximation to an asexual relationship. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 17, 2024

Slow is able to be heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, but it ultimately leaves this warm feeling of two people having navigated something new and coming out of it with a better understanding of themselves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2023