The film's pacing will be a drudge for some audiences and perhaps Tarkovsky could have trimmed back a bit but the patience he demands has purpose. The imagery, details and spiritual beauty of this film will have a big payoff...

| Original Score: A | Aug 1, 2024

Tarkovsky, in this moment, and throughout the runtime, forces us to face the fact that we are so focused on our great triumphs, that we forget the people we have lost and where our focus should be.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 28, 2024

…as philosophical as sci-fi gets, Solaris is a meditation, deeply rewarding on a spiritual level…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Solaris exists on several spatial, temporal, and fantastic levels at once.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

A scientist-sweating, slow moving, seat-squeaking bore.

| Jun 30, 2021

Ultimately I was really disappointed in Solaris but I am not sorry that I watched it.

| Apr 1, 2021

It's as if the film is a living, thinking thing: A reflection of what you want when you need it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 10, 2020

Perfectly immaculate, using the chilliness of the way the location is framed to offset the profoundly human story being told there.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 15, 2020

A profoundly beautiful and disturbing Russian film that reaches far beyond the realms of the future depicted in Kubrick's 2001.

| Oct 29, 2019

This movie -- at times pretentious -- is inauthentic cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 1, 2019

The duality is present in each idea and in each emotion, without ever being able to separate the positive from the negative, forming a tragic whole. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 7, 2019

Tarkovsky's meditation posits that we would wilfully enter the abyss to sanctify that which is most precious to us: our memories, our compassion, and our capacity for love.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 3, 2018

A cerebral and unsettling milestone that you should no doubt mark off your cinematic bucket list sometime.

| Oct 31, 2018

... as a haunted ode to lost love, 'Solaris' has few equals in all of cinema.

| Jul 3, 2017

The film has a hypnotic pull, drawing the viewer deeper and deeper into its enigmatic adventure by crafting a world all its own.

| May 18, 2017

Easily one of the most important science fiction films of all time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 12, 2017

Andrei Tarkovsky's pacing is less moved by narrative detail than thematic and metaphorical suggestion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 6, 2017

Where 2001: A Space Odyssey's final act explored the limitless possibilities of human potential, the heart of Solaris' thesis is the crushing limitation of human psychological experience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2017

Tarkovsky's reach for the stars was wholly in keeping with his striving curiosity and allowed him space to explore the nature of identity and love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2016

Viewers with patience will find 'Solaris' mesmerizing, visual and emotional food for thought even if such thought is open to a rainbow of interpretations, or to none.

| Jul 15, 2015