While Three Thousand Years of Longing never reaches that film’s mastery or poignancy, the expansive, bold paint-strokes of Miller’s passionate world-creation is still singular to behold.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

George Miller creates a thrilling mosaic of stories where reality and fantasy become one.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Three Thousand Years of Longing is equal parts ambitious, fascinating and messy.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 12, 2024

The stories that the Djinn tells are lovely, but the movie really lands in the second half when things get slightly more normal.

| Feb 27, 2024

The George Miller directorial, with its splendid imagery and sound so reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain trilogy and early Tarsem Singh, is the right kind of narrative to lose oneself in.

| Oct 4, 2023

The characters in the film could have pondered the link between existence and storytelling in a far more intriguing fashion.

| Original Score: C | Jul 25, 2023

As magical and trippy as Three Thousand Years of Longing wants to be, it gets lost in its own grand storytelling. Part of what makes stories enduring is their success at creating emotions within the audience, whoever they may be.

| Jul 24, 2023

George Miller invites us to a vibrant and ambitious epic that says it’s about the love of storytelling but seems to forget about giving love to its own story in the process.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

A romantic/erotic fantasy from director George Miller that begins with pure escapism and gradually works its way into your guts.

| Original Score: B+ | May 24, 2023

So the visionary efforts are present, absolutely, but they’re not memorable without a consistently compelling narrative.

| Feb 28, 2023

[A] slightly unhinged piece of classic storytelling — and while it is visually luscious and bursting with (narrative) calories, it did not seem to make up its mind, to its very end, which genre, and indeed audience age-group, it actually belongs to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2023

Three Thousand Years of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, is just the ticket for anyone wishing for something different to watch.

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

Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing is a challenge to those who feel content with loneliness, wrapped in their blankets of cynicism. It's as much about the power of storytelling as it is about the power of love and desire.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 30, 2022

For all the opposites these two characters are, they are drawn together in their hope for better... embraces fairy tale elements to a Brothers Grimm tee... a banquet of storytelling, sumptuous and delicious even when slightly bitter.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 28, 2022

The carefully controlled chaos is told in measured moments as two acting behemoths unravel the art of fantasy fables and ultimately, the power of a good love story.

| Dec 23, 2022

…a weird and occassionally wonderful visual mood-piece that’s all about story and the meaning and importance of story, but unfortunately omits to pack one of its own…

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2022

Visually rich and thematically dense, Three Thousand Years of Longing muses on romance and possession, as well as the slow death of mythology and folklore at the hands of science and capitalism.

| Dec 14, 2022

A wondrous film until the magic runs out in the last act.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2022

It’s out there but not as much as you think, well grounded in strong performances by Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2022

Alternating between charmingly and cringingly unfashionable, George Miller’s "Three Thousand Years of Longing" defies some orientalist tropes while falling prey to others.

| Nov 14, 2022