This drama from Mona Fastvold is a minor-key tragedy about unremarkable people striving for love and connection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

The World to Come is a rapturous, inevitably tragic, love story that suggests resolution only in its titular eschatological phrase.

| Jul 29, 2024

This is a film that tells a familiar story and it is easy to question the need to tell this particular story. However, I was sold by the film by how much I enjoyed watching these characters come to life and seeing their relationship develop over time.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 1, 2024

The script, though weak at times, offers interesting conversations on grief, life on the mid 19th century American frontier, the treatment of women and finding solace through matched experiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2023

Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby try to keep the narrative afloat with two remarkable performances, but they can’t compensate for the unsurprising, underwhelming storytelling.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2023

The World To Come doesnt exactly stand out from the many films that it resembles, but it does manage to tell an engaging story. Its another showcase for the rising reputation of both stars, and hits the right notes without ever becoming sluggish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2022

The film is clearly well crafted, with Mona Fastvold having strong control over what she hopes to accomplish and how she intends to meet those goals, and for the most part, she clearly does.

| Feb 22, 2022

Fastvold's approach is perhaps too eager to articulate what the characters conceal.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2022

For fans of an understated romance, this will be like cryptonite. For fans of a jolly good plot, not so much.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2021

In the end, do the pros of The World To Come outweigh the cons? Not really. But (...) [as] a pioneer lesbian romance, this film presents as a pastoral entry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2021

Mona Fastvold makes her film's period details and subtle emotional registers equally convincing, vividly capturing the drudgery of the women's lives - and the fleeting, illicit joy they find in each other's company.

| Sep 2, 2021

The World to Come is a vivid, achingly lyrical exploration of loneliness, grief, and the connection that develops between two frontierswomen that goes beyond friendship or even romance: they are a lifeline to one another.

| Aug 24, 2021

Norwegian director Mona Fastvold delivers a beautiful, atmospheric and interesting film. It will be a bit slow for some tastes, but I loved it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2021

A portrait of two loveless marriages with two absolutely stone-cold men.

| Aug 5, 2021

It is a film to remember for its passion - for its belief that those tiny snatches of pleasure are worth holding onto, even if the rest of the world might never believe them even possible.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

There's a satisfying literary intelligence at work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2021

The Gothic thrills are both subtle and properly gut-churning.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2021

It celebrates female desire wrestling to be free of its cage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2021

Makes terrific and tactile use of the landscape - rural Romania plays the eastern United States here - with brutal winters, springtime clotheslines, and clandestine woodland encounters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2021

This film does show, once again, that Mission: Impossible star Kirby has a big future. Whenever she is on screen, she shines.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2021