The result is absorbing, affecting and, as Miko's secrets emerge, discreetly incisive about traumas personal and historical.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2025

Even if most of Touch’s steps are predictable, its configuration of characters and settings are unique and refreshing. Plus, it’s hard not to love Kroistófer and Miko.

| Jan 21, 2025

A heart-affecting cross-cultural story about love and loss over the course of a lifetime.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur (Adrift, Beast) has crafted a bittersweet love story that journeys beyond the expected...The film captures both the politically charged late 60s/early 70s as well as our recent pandemic with great attention to detail.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 19, 2024

We become caught up in Kristófer’s efforts to find the woman who has remained lodged in his heart for the past 50 years while his adult life has played itself out.

| Oct 8, 2024

Touch is an absorbing, touching and simply lovely drama. And one of the year’s best? Yeah, maybe.

| Oct 2, 2024

One of the most beautiful films that you will see this year. Captures the emotions of love and loss in a way that very few films have been able to do over the years.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 11, 2024

There's a real tenderness to Touch, a bittersweet quality that derives from an overriding feeling of nostalgia and that sense that memories can be both beautiful and painful, at the same time.

| Sep 11, 2024

The film prioritises the nostalgic reminiscences of [the protagonist's] first love. During these moments, Touch captures moments of genuine warmth and youthful passion. But elsewhere the film proves hollow and reductive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2024

Is there something worse than loving someone and losing them for five decades? Yes, there is. This film about two people who leave an irreversible touch on each other brought tears to my eyes.

| Aug 31, 2024

Miko’s emotional story unfolds in a way that is itself as gentle and profound as a Japanese Haiku.

| Aug 29, 2024

Touch is an uncommonly poignant drama that balances rich sentimentality with more harrowing themes. Only cynics will resist a swoon or three.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2024

An old-school weepie smothered in a syrupy string score, Touch is an unexpected offering from Icelandic action director Kormákur, who has made his name pitting humans against nature: the Himalayas in Everest, the sea in Adrift, a rogue lion in Beast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2024

Though undeniably predictable in terms of premise, structure and final outcome, this exquisitely produced and acted affair just does not put a foot wrong as it gently lures you towards its misty-eyed destination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2024

This is a love story, pure and simple and unashamedly emotional. Kormákur also understands the visual appeal of romance: it’s not just about the pillow talk or heady declarations of passion, it’s about the images, and he doesn’t stint us in that regard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2024

For all its sadness, there is also an optimism to this film, a reminder that the past might be physically out of reach but is still with us.

| Aug 28, 2024

Touch is Baltasar Kormákur’s masterpiece… a testament to all that survives in the heart.

| Original Score: A | Aug 21, 2024

The weaving worlds that Kormákur has created are gorgeously delicate and prove welcome in its ability to lose audiences within its serenity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2024

Touch might be easily overlooked, but it remains a light watch, a candid representation of a profound love. It’s a pleasant surprise for fans of the genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 12, 2024

Dialogue sparkles With warmth worth remembering

| Original Score: 17.17/20 | Aug 12, 2024