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

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

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

Touch is a profoundly moving drama about love in many forms.

| Jul 24, 2024

Even after the pall of historical tragedy thickens, “Touch” is still perfumed with much to admire for a love story, especially where Kormákur’s compassionate way with actors is concerned.

| Jul 15, 2024

Its sensibility is as exquisitely tender as the flutter of a butterfly wing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 14, 2024

Touch is the kind of movie you get when a filmmaker thinks like that, on his feet and with his heart—and in so doing, he makes us believe we can, too.

| Jul 12, 2024

A widower retraces his youth and finds that devastating truths can lurk below even our fondest recollections in this romantic drama from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2024

There is a literary beauty woven throughout the film. He asks you to examine what it means to reach out and touch someone — or have someone touch you. Both the physical and the metaphysical are orchestrated wonderfully.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2024

"Touch” is a worthy consideration of the things that matter most when the clock is running out, but it could have been more focused.

| Jul 11, 2024

The movie glides along, handsomely.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2024

The result is a film whose elegance is all the more staggering because it came from the man who directed “2 Guns” and “Beast.”

| Original Score: A- | Jul 11, 2024

“Touch” rekindles a treacly genre that I didn’t realize I missed. Its tender performances and gut-punch reveals are classic tear-jerker ingredients.

| Jul 11, 2024

Although it is astonishingly predictable, “Touch” is absorbing thanks to Kormákur’s commitment to authenticity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2024

Touch, adapted from Olafur Johann Olafsson’s novel, is handsome, sentimental and restrained (admirably, in parts). But it also leaves a lot to be desired -- yes, a movie about yearning left me yearning -- chiefly when it comes to the central romance.

| Jul 9, 2024

Touch is a minor-key movie but a consistently absorbing one. It’s rewarding to see accomplished director Kormákur working in a different vein.

| Jun 14, 2024

Ultimately, this is a uniquely powerful, humane film about people rebounding from the rubble of devastating losses, choosing courage and love to overcome grief. And there’s nothing more touching than seeing that in action.

| Jun 14, 2024

[W]hat’s worth taking away from the film is its peacefulness. There are moments of friendship and family and workplace camaraderie that are real and charming.

| Jun 14, 2024