The Souvenir is essential viewing for devoted cinephiles.

| Nov 8, 2023

Hogg’s command of the cinematic language might not satisfy those craving straight-up entertainment, but film buffs looking for an anti-blockbuster will find much to enjoy in The Souvenir.

| Jul 20, 2023

...there is the slightly conflicted expression in Tilda Swinton’s eyes in the otherwise insufferable The Souvenir...

| Oct 31, 2022

[Hogg's] strong direction of this material makes up for the lacking cohesion in the script, and aided by solid performances in the entire cast, it helps to elevate the film even more.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 4, 2022

Hogg's film is a tessellation of memories, encounters, feelings, and mementos combined into a work of intricate and personal filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2022

It functions as a memoir, and Hogg's watchful and elliptical sensibility works beautifully in documenting how those memories are coloured by the senses as much as they are by clearly determined junctures in time and narrative.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2022

Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir was maybe the best film of 2019.

| Jan 18, 2022

Episode 39: Ma / The Souvenir / Lenny / Cabaret

| Original Score: 88/100 | Oct 4, 2021

Singular in its style and rhythm, this highly accomplished feature is a portrait of the artist as a diffident, uncertain young woman

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2021

Joanna Hogg uses a very effective visual code to describe a character who's enigmatic from the beginning. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2021

The painting has a story to tell, calling to the movie's main character by implying an obsessive love whose end seems uncertain.

| Jul 23, 2021

...impeccably acted albeit slow-burning take on young-adulthood...

| Original Score: 13/20 | Apr 1, 2021

We meet people in our lives who changes and shapes you when you are on the verge of adulthood for better or worse. The Souvenir succeeds in eulogizing that period of your life lovingly and poignantly.

| Feb 13, 2021

[It] does have its own particular integrity. On the other hand, like the three features Hogg has made previously, this is an exercise in navel-gazing "rich people's problems" she observes from a very limited perspective...

| Oct 14, 2020

A subtle, exquisite and exciting film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 10, 2020

A film with a refined aesthetic, but it is indulgent and not very moving. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 28, 2020

Literary in tone and cinematic in expression, the film is entirely singular: It embraces sincerity and bravery and rejects cynicism, even as it recognizes the appeal of dissolute privilege.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 22, 2020

[Joanna Hogg] makes brilliant use of shallow focus to keep you keyed in to specific details.

| Feb 21, 2020

While the final act is perhaps a touch too long, this is a quietly intense character study immersing us into a young woman's first love that will eventually shape all others that follow.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2020

As this is Honor's first acting role, her constant vulnerability throughout is painfully real.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2020