The Eight Mountains offers all sorts of ecstatically beautiful footage of the Italian Alps, but it also spins out a delicate, rueful story about trying to find a balance between nature and work...

| Dec 9, 2023

Every teenage boy should watch this movie, and the sooner the better.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 27, 2023

The look of the film is so spectacular that I almost want to recommend you see it solely for that reason. It wasn’t enough to save the film for me.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2023

It is one of the few films I've ever seen that's about male friendship without buddy-buddy backslapping, and that's quite meaningful.

| May 17, 2023

God, I love this movie so much... A very deep and meaningful story of platonic friendship.

| May 17, 2023

Combines the earthy, rooted grit of Jack London with the vivid emotional landscapes of Elena Ferrante.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2023

Narratively conventional, overlong and occasionally tangential, but it builds slowly and meaningfully towards a sense of catharsis that’s as big as the elevations of the title.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2023

It’s overlong, and overfamiliar, but remains a nuanced dual character study.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2023

Enduring male friendships and the legacy of childhood are examined in this swoon-worthy literary adaptation...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2023

At its best, The Eight Mountains delivers on the promise of movies as psychological time machines.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2023

It's a space dominated by the two now-grown men as they navigate their own connections.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 11, 2023

The Eight Mountains is in no rush to tell its story, but the time is well spent, allowing us to soak up the sweeping natural beauty of those mountains.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 11, 2023

Watching Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s vivid, sweeping film about male friendship is like reading a satisfying novel... The film’s narrative turns may get a bit grandiose toward the end, but what precedes that is rich and moving.

| May 9, 2023

Wildly beautiful and tender, so infused with unspoken emotion that it’s a tearful watch even in its most idyllic moments.

| May 5, 2023

The love story that is “The Eight Mountains” expresses this ineffable relationship between those who know us best and the places in which we find ourselves with a rough-hewn grace and profound knowingness.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2023

The kind of emptied, tranquillized, minutely calibrated experience that’s no less a matter of fan service than the latest installment of comic-book I.P., and offers no more meaningful a view of life.

| May 3, 2023

"The Eight Mountains" works slowly and patiently. It doesn't rush. This may be frustrating for some viewers, but the film works because of its slowness and patience, not despite it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2023

The spiritual dimension of Pietro and Bruno’s bond has its appeal, and one of the movie’s pleasures is that it takes male friendship seriously.

| Apr 27, 2023

A stunning, often profound and frequently jaw-droppingly gorgeous tale of two friends from childhood through adulthood set against the Italian Alps.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 27, 2023

The film is a meditative, slow crescendo of wounded feelings and quiet epiphanies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2023