Watching the pieces of The Long Walk fall into place is a gut-wrenching experience with the kind of emotional punch that leaves you dazed. It is at once an endlessly bleak and hopeful journey through one man's efforts to heal damage done to him

| Jul 14, 2024

The juxtaposition of the banal and the supernatural may draw comparisons with the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, but perhaps a better reference would be the heady oddness of Mati Diop’s Atlantics.

| Dec 20, 2022

Do was marked as a filmmaker to watch. Her third effort shows maturation and improvement that supports that claim. Her unique voice and heady themes won't appeal to everyone, however.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2022

Both of these characters are moral mentors who help draw out our deepest feelings and beliefs about moral education, nonviolence, church, prejudice, empathy, conscience, and commitment.

| Dec 20, 2022

Ghosts and time travel blend seamlessly in Laotian director Mattie Do's new genre-bending film.

| Sep 14, 2022

An intense slow burn that genre fans should put at the top of their watchlists, The Long Walk is an elegiac exploration of the destruction wrought by all-too-human impulses.

| Aug 17, 2022

The Long Walk is an epic experience that, despite taking place in the same bit of land, spans decades of pain and rage. It’s a film that digs into your heart and chokes you with tears. It’s a masterpiece in genre filmmaking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 16, 2022

The Long Walk is cinema thats intelligent, soulful, and utterly necessary.

| Mar 29, 2022

A spellbinding tale that clings to you long after the film is over.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022

With a stellar ensemble cast and a challenging, emotionally-driven narrative, The Long Walk is an atypical ghost story that will nestle in your mind.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 15, 2022

If it's possible for a film to be both a very slow burn and also exciting at the same time, this one balances that contradiction.

| Mar 11, 2022

By turns thoughtful, moving and sinister, The Long Walk expertly combines genres, weaving a complex, highly personal tale that should appeal to fans of horror, arthouse and foreign language cinema alike - arguably Mattie Do's best work to date.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 10, 2022

In the best way possible, it feels like [Mattie Do]’s making it up as she goes along. The Long Walk makes a compelling argument that viewers should go along with her.

| Mar 10, 2022

Do lays The Long Walk out in a simple, elegant manner, delivering one of the years best genre films in the process.

| Mar 10, 2022

In this slow burn sci-fi ghost story, an old man learns the hard way that unprocessed trauma and regret only ever lead to self-destruction.

| Mar 9, 2022

The Long Walk reigns in a new haunting era for horror cinema with a punk rock-level confidence that embraces subverting expectations.

| Mar 7, 2022

The Long Walk both challenges and rewards viewers, and that is a rare thing.

| Mar 7, 2022

The Long Walk, the latest from Mattie Do — Laos’ first and, so far, only female director — understands that for time travel to make sense, all one has to do is present it as is. For Do, it’s a feeling more than a fact.

| Mar 5, 2022

It’s an eerie, quiet, mysterious tale that requires a degree of patience, but also intrigues strongly enough to tempt the greater narrative insight repeat viewings might afford.

| Mar 4, 2022

You won't find scares hiding for you in this particular ghost story. Instead, this low-key ghost story is singularly focused on the obsessive actions of a man haunted by his own memories.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 4, 2022