Paul Dano’s direction is one of the most confident I’ve seen in recent years from a first-timer at the helm.

| Aug 7, 2024

It’s pretty to look at, and harbours strong visual storytelling alongside its top-notch acting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

“Wildlife” has such a strong emotional core, and even as a fiery metaphor burns on the horizon (I’ll let you discover it for yourselves) the film never loses its heart.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Wildlife is beautifully photographed with a hypnotic performance from Carey Mulligan.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Dano's control throughout Wildlife does not apply to his actors, who perform in scenes of such complexity and unconstrained emotion that it would be impossible to reduce their characters to mere tropes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 8, 2022

Episode 17: Now We Live

| Original Score: 82/100 | Sep 1, 2021

'Wildlife' doesn't move like other movies. It's honest, blunt, and much more novelistic in its approach.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2021

Wildlife does an effective job of dramatizing the conflict between the heavily promoted notion that America ... is the land of unlimited opportunity and universal prosperity, and the actual conditions ...for the mass of the population.

| Feb 17, 2021

It's rare to see a movie family, even a small one, get such equal weight on screen.

| Original Score: B | Feb 4, 2021

By avoiding gender bias or pointing fingers, Wildlife showcases the coming-of-age of the whole family, humbly admitting that everyone is flawed.

| Jan 29, 2021

Like a still-life painting, the action is in the details ... This is a portrait of a family, not a high adrenaline thriller or even a moderately fast-paced drama. Above all else, the film is a vessel for its performances.

| Jan 29, 2021

A quietly accomplished and profoundly devastating directorial debut from character actor Paul Dano.

| Dec 15, 2020

Paul Dano's directorial debut is a poignant look at familial conflict that powerfully makes its point without raising its voice. The performances by the three leads are of the highest order.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

The film may take its time in certain spaces, but [Dano] makes it worth the wait with a sublime ending.

| Nov 10, 2020

This is not a pleasant movie, but it's an exacting and skillful one, with fine performances and a credible, anti-nostalgic atmosphere.

| Oct 22, 2020

It's a film that sets you smack dab in the middle of its story and envelopes you as much with its silences as it does with its dialogue.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

Its analysis is far from perfect, mainly affected by its slow burn pacing. But the standout performance by Mulligan ensures that Dano's directorial career charts in the right direction.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Delves into the doubts, discontentment and aspirations of a self-questioning and flawed human being at a time when women were supposed to be ideal housewives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2020

Dano's intricate eye for visual splendour and pained expression is masterful in his creation, however, with nothing to adhere the audience's sympathy to its major characters it leaves a bitter taste of disdain that dampens down any real fire.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2020

It loses some of its pith towards the end, but it's still a beautifully stoic and layered character study with influences ranging from Yasujirō Ozu to Satyajit Ray.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2020