Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have recently given us.
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Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen. For such a fully realized portrait to be created by a 28-year-old first-time director is even more remarkable.
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For a movie about the importance of memory, Away From Her is appropriately sophisticated in its treatment of time. Polley has broken the chronological story into three sections of unequal length and woven them together, approximating our own mercurial journeys through the past.
100
To say it is about a debilitating disease is as reductive as saying "Little Miss Sunshine" is about a beauty pageant. Both are intimate stories of family ties that bind but sometimes also choke.
100
Extraordinary--delicate, seriously disturbing, and lovely.
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Anyone who could read Munro’s original story and think they could make a film of it, and then make a great film, deserves a certain awe.
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It's a precociously assured and mature work, at once humble and bold, that keeps faith with Munro's precise, graceful prose while tailoring its linear progression into shapely cinematic form.
90
Poignant, wise and unafraid -- just the sort of film for a young person, or any person, for that matter, to make.
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I can't remember the last time the movies yielded up a love story so painful, so tender and so true.
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The movie, Polley's feature début, is a small-scale triumph that could herald a great career.
