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

| Mar 19, 2025

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

[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

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

| May 2, 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

A supremely confident piece of filmmaking that negotiates the tricky terrain of non-typical sexualities with sensitivity, humour and a refreshing lightness of touch.

| Jul 5, 2023

Visually grainy, as if you can reach out and feel the film stock, with well-rounded characters, it’s stirring and moving at every turn.

| Feb 2, 2023

There should be, and will be, more stories that have asexual protagonists, where the plot is not concerned with an allosexual person being taught asexuality 101. This is not that story. But it is a beautiful, romantic film.

| Jan 28, 2023

"Slow" announces Kavtaradze as a director with keen insight into human psychology and a true knack for working with actors

| Jan 26, 2023