If you have the patience to let Uncle Boonmee unfold and surround you, you will experience something great and truly illuminating and gratifying.

| Feb 20, 2024

Weerasethakul confirms that cinema as an art is still alive and, to prove it, he transforms this film into a dazzling and hypnotic experience that is very difficult to forget. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 10, 2024

“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” is a gateway to another world; it exists in the space between life and death, between past and present, between reality and fantasy.

| Oct 27, 2022

Episode 50: Heart of Glass / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Sunset

| Original Score: 64/100 | Oct 18, 2021

Uncle Boonmee is expression of an artist whose ingrained Buddhist philosophy and formative experiences which have shaped him into who he is.

| Mar 21, 2021

There is a singular quality to Weerasethakul's work that cannot be mistaken. He is a man with a vision, a true auteur, each film bearing his indelible stamp, a kind of hushed beauty that seems transfixed in time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Weerasethakul's intelligently-placed injections of humor prove the perfect foil to some of his the film's more melancholic scenes, successfully lifting Uncle Boonmee from the realms of despair and anguish towards hope and rebirth.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2018

No one else is making films this exciting and challenging.

| Mar 7, 2018

Leaving his traditionally bifurcated structures behind, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul plunges even further into the realm of tropical surrealism, tapping into parallel realities and past lives with a delicate restraint that is all his own.

| Oct 4, 2017

Uncle Boonmee is art that embraces, rather than reorders, life's chaos.

| Apr 18, 2016

"Uncle Boonmee" is a pleasant enough experience, but it doesn't say anything and is instead content to merely project the sort of neo-Orientalism of which festival programmers and art-house patrons are so enamored.

| Oct 7, 2015

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is boring and completely fails to engage on any level. Simply put, it's much too strange for its own good.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 9, 2013

Magical, baffling, mirthful, sublime -- it’s everything it’s cracked up to be.

| Nov 7, 2013

Weerasethakul's sixth feature is a typically slowburning experience of art cinema that doesn't feature a single spoken word until eight minutes in and is as equally enchanting as it is infuriating.

| Sep 15, 2013

Uncle Boonmee is about ... the moments when our worlds expand; when our outlines turn out to be more porous than we thought.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 25, 2011

Uncle Boonmee is a film to be experienced for its immediacy and thought upon for its ineffability.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 25, 2011

Fits neatly into Weerasethakul's cinema-shaking oeuvre of beautiful experimentation. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 1, 2011

One to absorb, to wonder at, and, perhaps most significantly, to give exposure to lines of thinking that one might not be familiar with.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 14, 2011

Beguiling, frequently baffling and frustrating.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Weerasethakul's sincerity is evident, though the film's meditative pace and vague philosophical undertones will not be for everyone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2011