Joanna Hogg signs off on her double feature with The Souvenir: Part II, a quietly powerful, meta journey through grief and beyond.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Like its predecessor, The Souvenir Part II is defined by its open spaces; the silences in conversation, the gap between ‘action’ and ‘cut,’ the clouds between the memory of how something happened, and the reality of it.

| Jun 5, 2024

The Souvenir Part 2 is better than Part 1!

| Jul 26, 2023

As a sequel, it has an aesthetic that projects a certain elegance, but its dramatic side lacks pushfulness and is quite lukewarm when it illustrates the guilt, mourning and self-discovery of a filmmaker. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2022

...please spare me...

| Oct 31, 2022

While the first Souvenir in many ways feels like a complete piece, the second demonstrates how an artist is able to reinvent a story in a bold and exciting new way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2022

The Souvenir - Part II is one of those strange instances where a sequel surpasses the original (In your face, Marvel!). [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 14, 2022

Cinema isn't short on memoirs, many of them wonderful, but The Souvenir and its just-as-phenomenal sequel are in a bold and brilliant realm all of their own.

| Jun 25, 2022

The Souvenir: Part II becomes a masterful investigation of art’s ability to heal and make us understand ourselves a little better.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 10, 2022

A very nice-looking slog, but a slog all the same.

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

The Souvenir Part II is undeniably the work of a talented director though this episode of the autobiography is less interesting than its predecessor.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 17, 2022

dizzyingly postmodern.

| Original Score: 18/20 | Mar 15, 2022

A less literal film than the first one, Hogg eventually strides headlong into something between David Lynch and Charlie Kaufman-style meta playfulness. It's wonderful. This one is guaranteed to leave you feeling some kind of way.

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

If the first film was a menacing love (or something like it) story, The Souvenir Part II is a fulfilling and ultimately cathartic ghost tale that enriches the first film without diminishing it. As a conclusion, it's brilliant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2022

You don’t often see sequels in art-house cinema, these second go-rounds usually relegated to the money-hungry world of the commercial blockbuster. Part II isn’t a sequel, exactly, but rather an expansion of Hogg’s portrait of the artist as a young woman.

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

This is Hogg's best film and her most personal and self-reflective statement as a director.

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

Through Julie, Hogg allows the audience to feel through these two films her own memories, her own growth, her own vision of the world as an artist.

| Original Score: B | Feb 23, 2022

Swinton-Byrne, a newcomer to acting when first approached by Hogg, is mesmeric in the lead.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 11, 2022

It’s a psychologically perceptive drama full of acute observations, yet it’s disconcerting in its social complacency.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2022

The Souvenir Part II is a dissection of this which feels at times unnecessary, overlong and lacking any charm.

| Feb 7, 2022