60
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
16(67%)
mixed
6(25%)
negative
2(8%)
Showing 24 Critic Reviews
100
Together is a likely candidate to become that one foreign-language film that jumps out of the art houses each year to become a mainstream phenomenon.
88
It's hard to watch and listen to Together without, in some sense, having your heart lifted by its music.
88
A movie with the nerve to end with melodramatic sentiment--and get away with it, because it means it. Expect lots of damp eyes in the audience.
80
Isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love?
80
Viewers with a low tolerance for sentiment may balk, but the emotions are so true and the characters so appealing that the film should completely win you over.
80
A true original, thanks to some memorable characters, an engaging story and a thrilling classical soundtrack.
75
To contextualize the story's lack of subtlety, it helps to see these casting choices as ongoing penance for the time when, as a boy, Chen denounced his own father to the Red Guard.
75
Though moving, Together needed more opera to send us where great music frequently goes -- nearly over the edge.
75
Together's mix of classical gems and composer Zhao Lin's plaintive score is stirring, soaring stuff.
70
Chen tries to generate some suspense, but there's never any doubt which side has to win.
