The use of poetry suggests depth and history beyond the immediate moment, even when the characters, called only He and She, trade epithets as lovers in the midst of horrifying anger can.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2018

Despite many interesting mise-en-scene moments, the film disappointingly feels as sterile as the family's immaculately clean house.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2005

The actors are so committed to Potter's vision, they persuade you to go along with them.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2005

Your taste in movies may not be/ Quite so highbrow or so twee/ But Potter has a lot to say/ About the troubles of our day.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 18, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2005

While the unconventionally filmed Yes doesn't fully realize all of its artistic ambitions, its depiction of romantic passion resonates with a genuine feeling that can't be dismissed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2005

It's a bold exercise, an interesting experiment, but a movie it ain't.

| Jul 29, 2005

For those who accept Potter's premise -- and why not embark on a challenging, enriching experience? -- this is a unique, bold adventure of the soul.

| Jul 28, 2005

Refreshing, innovative and unafraid of taking chances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2005

Rough-hewn as they are, Potter's verse, ranging from flowery to obscene, compels the viewer toward a fresh way of listening.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2005

The verse quickly lifts the movie into a celebration of language, both spoken and unspoken.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2005

Potter explores midlife ennui, (middle-)East-West tension, theology, biology and the irrational nature of romance in this ambitious, if ultimately sketchy, drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2005

Overturns some of the usual assumptions about what movies can and should do.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2005

Writer-director Sally Potter has dived brilliantly off a 100-foot ledge to engage the aftermath of 9/11 with poetry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 8, 2005

Chained to a stubborn insistence on iambic pentameter, determined to load its lovers down with geopolitical symbolism, Sally Potter's Yes is an ambitious stunt that must have sounded better in the filmmaker's head.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2005

This is the kind of movie that nice people call ambitious.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 7, 2005

Alive and daring, not a rehearsal of safe material and styles.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 7, 2005

The film is mostly unbearable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Those in search of a work of peerlessly stupefying intellectual vanity presented entirely in iambic pentameter should stop looking. It's right here.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Parse the philosophy behind the spill of words, though, and you'll find intellectual jumble, junk.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 29, 2005