his is an intense, intimate, spare film about love, grief and dementia, and the two leads, who play a gay couple, are superb.

| Jul 29, 2021

The film has plenty of low-key charm and humour, not least in Sam and Tusker's believable, tetchy in-car interactions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2021

Firth and Tucci's performances are remarkable in how delicately they navigate this maze of half-truths and suppressed emotions, all crammed inside their rusty campervan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2021

A terrific piece of writing about the difficulties of living on the fringes of a catastrophe - acknowledging the danger, but rarely addressing the true terrors that await.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

The real impact of the film, however, comes from the leads' performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Some directors go an entire career without making anything decent -- whereas Macqueen has directed half a good film, and shaped dauntless performances from Firth and Tucci, on only his second go.

| Jun 24, 2021

What it lacks in cinematic width it gains in well-earned emotional depth, courtesy of delicate writing and two subtle but towering performances from Firth and Tucci.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2021

Supernova is a brave and touching film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2021

The climactic two-hander gifts us some of Firth and Tucci's finest work on screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2021

Macqueen's script smartly identifies that it's as much Tusker looking after Sam as the other way around. It's one of the relatable truths in a film full of them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2021

Intimacy and familiarity is difficult to pull off but essential to a love story that's not about the heady first throes of romance but the enduring grace of the last. It's the spark in Supernova, a quiet and poignant drama about saying goodbye.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2021

Macqueen was fortunate to have two really fine actors to play these all-too-human characters. Firth as the introverted, quietly determined Sam has probably never been better, while Tucci also gives a career-best performance...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 17, 2021

Too polite? A few of the film's detractors have said so, and maybe they're right. But more important than this is Macqueen's success in avoiding any taint of sentimentality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2021

The film accordingly owes a great deal of its power to its actors, who are, of course, more than merely plausible as longtime partners, whose way through the small dramas of the everyday is the movie's real substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2021

By the time Tusker and Sam reach the end of the road - both metaphorical and literal, as this is as much a travelogue of England's Lake District - Supernova feels less like a film to cherish and more a tweet to favourite.

| Feb 19, 2021

Its particular effectiveness depends not only on Firth and Tucci's believability as a couple but also on the complementarity of their respective personas...

| Feb 19, 2021

Never does "Supernova" try to bite off more than it can handle as it winds toward an inevitable but beautifully rendered destination.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2021

In scene after scene, as the two men visit friends and family one last time, we glimpse the showier, more maudlin film that Supernova could but never does devolve into, hovering just at the edges.

| Feb 16, 2021

If the two performances are individually excellent, it is the relationship between them that is the real star of Supernova, a portrait of the dazzling starburst of intense feeling that floods a deeply loving couple's universe right before heat death.

| Feb 15, 2021

A very touching movie.

| Feb 12, 2021