This anthology of stories from around the globe about the early days of pandemic serves as a cathartic exhale after all we've been through.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2022

Overall, the segments range from troubling, to moving, to the macabre. They don't really fit together into a complete package, but there is enough variety in it that most people will be able to find something interesting in it.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 27, 2022

Everyone here has something vital to say or examine.

| Jan 8, 2022

The premise is ridiculously simple - take out your phone and film family members as they chat - but when your family is as expressive and poetic as Panahi's, most of your job is done for you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2021

By not tritely attempting to say something about our times, it ends up revealing more.

| Oct 14, 2021

I loved the shorts from Panahi and Lowery and, to a lesser extent, those from Poitras and Chen. Perhaps where anthologies are concerned, that constitutes a passing grade.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 24, 2021

The Year of the Everlasting Storm is perhaps one of the more unexpected approaches to processing what we're all living through

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2021

As with any such catch-all package, the results are variable. But they do provide an interestingly rangy snapshot of a particular shared (albeit not physically) moment in time.

| Sep 13, 2021

The film's poignancy comes from its confirmation that even in tumultuous times, our senses of wonder, love and loyalty remain integral to the human experience.

| Sep 11, 2021

Let's call Lowery's vivid, fierce, intently concentrated Dig Up My Darling a ghost story of fantastical distillation, and Weerasethakul's a bug story. But a timeless bug story. A bug story for the ages. History: bugs.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 11, 2021

A time capsule of cinema through a pandemic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 10, 2021

A feature-length anthology, 'The Year of the Everlasting Storm,' offers multiple views of how COVID-19 has affected us

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2021

This [is a] moving anthology from seven directors around the world, whose pandemic vignettes shine through in varying tones. All artfully done, they resonate partly because we've all been there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2021

It can be cathartic at times if not hopeful. But there is comfort in knowing that other people are navigating life around the virus grabbing at any form of normalcy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2021

The Year of the Everlasting Storm may well be topped and tailed by its best, most eccentric works, each at the polar ends of observation.

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

As a collection of intimate dramas and striking documentaries, this is also a wonderful record of how talented auteurs capture similar situations through very different eyes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2021

A sobering look at where we've been the past year and a half - and where we might eventually land.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 8, 2021

A worthwhile, if not particularly mainstream, endeavor that hardcore cinephiles will cherish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2021

Even the most ordinary of them is worth seeing, and the best of them, brevity notwithstanding, are among the most powerful films of the year.

| Sep 3, 2021

There are consolations to be found here, and some things more crucial. The Year of the Everlasting Storm is definitely a noteworthy achievement in anti-escapism, which the current cinema could certainly always use more of.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2021