Bardem brings grace and pathos to his role, and there is real delicacy and tenderness in his scenes with Fanning.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

The narrative never quite passes its halfway mark... the movie would've benefited from more relatable characters and clarity overall. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2023

Potter’s movie leans heavily on its two lead performances, both dramatically different but equally essential.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

The Roads Not Taken remains very Potterian; melancholic, middle-class, existential, a touch pretentious, but it does contain a weight that some of her pictures lack.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2021

At its worst it can feel like a tolling, laboured and sometimes directionless trope through memory lane

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Oct 2, 2020

The Roads Not Taken is frequently moving, and a fascinating creative idea, but without sufficient information about Leo's character to anchor the narrative, it feels too abstract.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2020

It's all very pretty to look at and shallow as a puddle: distrust any film-maker who name-drops Homer just because they filmed on a Greek beach.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2020

The best reason to see the film is the acting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2020

It's a chamber piece in many ways, but with bold flashback excursions that come close to causing its emotional engine to overheat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2020

[T]hat's it. That's the film. Three different Javier Bardems moaning solidly, sometimes crying, and struggling to write, for 85 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2020

Alas, what [Potter] presents us with instead is yet another story of an egocentric male artist tortured by his belated realisation that familial and personal relationships are more important than the pursuit of artistic glory.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2020

The Roads Not Taken, an understated drama from Sally Potter, is rich with small moments of intimacy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2020

A sad, timely story of family and fragility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2020

Elle Fanning and Sally Potter triumph again. It's not always an easy watch, but The Roads Not Taken tackles a distressing subject with care and invites us to reconsider our preconceptions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2020

The Roads Not Taken is a film that will undoubtedly resonate with those who have had similar experiences, but will likely fail to captivate an audience looking for anything more than personal reflection...

| Sep 4, 2020

A potentially cathartic watch, especially for those close to the subject matter - and if you don't mind the movie's depressing tone.

| Aug 25, 2020

Complicated, confused tale of mental illness, more about the carers than the sick.

| Jun 26, 2020

Here is a film whose heart is in the right place. But despite good intentions and a stacked cast of heavyweights, the story simply does not work.

| Original Score: C | May 25, 2020

The film speaks to one of the world's great poems, a universe of soulful longing and gorgeous ambiguity in a mere 144 words.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2020

A well-intentioned but muddled melodrama about the decisions that guide our lives. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2020