"Take This Waltz" isn't all about probing insecurities or lusting over the hot neighbor across the street. It's about what connections people choose to see through.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

Sarah Polley holds it together with a sure sense of the film's tone and outlook and is helped along by an endearing performance from Michelle Williams.

| Feb 13, 2020

It's the humanistic and harsh reality that settles into the bones of Take This Waltz that makes it memorable. When I first saw it I wasn't sure how to feel, I just knew that I did.

| Feb 6, 2020

Take the Waltz is wonderfully played out, with a great performance from [Michelle] Williams, bringing a refreshing change on the typical out-of-love relationship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019

Polley captures this love triangle with a sharp eye for detail.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

A frustrating, yet undeniably beguiling observation of love and infatuation told through a staunchly female perspective

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2019

[Director Sarah] Polley, who also wrote and directed the great 2006 film Away from Her, can make magic and then show how reality inevitably intrudes on it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2018

This is experiencing the acceptance of disconnection, which can manifest every time we meet someone new and/or feel displaced with someone we thought we'd love forever. Polley is an important director to fearlessly capture this here.

| Oct 31, 2018

Polley doesn't seem to know what to do with [Seth Rogen], domesticating the...persona that you know would have had a ribald field day with those chickens he's always cooking.

| Aug 30, 2018

Polley is a detail-oriented director who can get a little lost dazzling us with the little things.

| Sep 11, 2017

It's such a strange little movie but beautifully acted and undeniably fascinating.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 20, 2014

Sexually charged, frank, and relatable, Take This Waltz is a bittersweet observation of adult romance.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 17, 2014

[A] sunny dramedy that lulls its viewers with pseudo quirks, but which actually hides an altogether terrifying dead heart that clubs viewers over the head with its nauseating examination of an insufferable, unhappy woman.

| Sep 8, 2013

Take This Waltz is a Remarkable, Offbeat Love Story

| Aug 29, 2013

While hardly a complete failure, 'Waltz' nevertheless finds Polley dancing to the beat of a simmering romantic triangle with two left feet.

| Original Score: C | Jun 2, 2013

This is finely-judged filmmaking from a writing and directing talent to watch.

| Mar 4, 2013

A mess of the sort that only a brilliant person can slop up on there.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 9, 2013

The gorgeous photography gives summertime Toronto a steamy, sexy glow and the music (including the Leonard Cohen song that provides the title) adds to the film's air of yearning.

| Jan 7, 2013

Though nicely shot and well acted, especially by Michelle Williams, this is a minor, conventional work and a step down for Polley after her splashy directing debut, Away from Her.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 6, 2013

This slice-of-life character study doesn't tell the whole story. Rather, this is a glimpse into a short part of the life of a woman who seems a lot like an enigma.

| Original Score: B | Dec 4, 2012