The World to Come

"Fastvold's romance casts a spell."

"This richly textural sophomore feature represents a considerable step up from [Fastvold's] intriguing but opaque 2014 debut "The Sleepwalker.""

"Much as I admired and was at times stirred by The World to Come, I'm convinced it would be a significantly stronger movie with 75 percent of the narration stripped away."

"Many of the script's most pivotal moments are folded into the margins like the two lines of chicken scratch that gave birth to these characters."

"The film presents a world that too often feels as if it's a product of the present day."

"The principal legacy of "The World to Come"-unusually, for a costume picture-is a sense of bridled anger, at all that will never be said and done."

"Instead of denaturing the ardor - the ecstasy, the rapture, the ultimate tragedy - of the story, Fastvold's light hand only intensifies it."

"The World To Come is in love with language, constructing palaces of beautiful words that contrast with the muddy, rocky environment surrounding its characters."

"Waterston and Kirby are both superb at creating characters whose attraction must be shown to grow by degrees, without overt admission."

"The World to Come weaves a beguiling spell, told with both restraint and ecstasy."

"You long for something evocative and warm throughout The World to Come only to leave it with a minor shiver."

"A love story of deep and delicate feeling if not strict originality."