91
Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliSan Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliNostalgia for the Light is a strange and stunning work of art: a poem disguised as a movie about astronomers in the Atacama desert of Chile.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is deeply intelligent, intensely and painfully political, and yet attempts, and succeeds, somehow to transcend politics and perhaps even history itself.
- 90The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe film's passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. Mr. Guzmán's belief in eternal memory is an astounding leap of faith.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA film of rare visual poetry that's simultaneously personal, political and philosophical, it's a genuine art film that's also unpretentious and easygoing.
- 88Boston GlobeMark FeeneyBoston GlobeMark FeeneyWhat starts out as a beautifully depopulated filmic exercise - it's 14 minutes into the movie before Guzman introduces any people - becomes toward the end a nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIt's also poetic and meditative in a way that never feels pretentious.
- 80Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonOften stark and ravishing, Nostalgia for the Light is most moving as a manifestation of the filmmaker's stubborn righteousness.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichA moving meditation on history, knowledge and mortality.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonA truly insightful art film that still manages to be easy-going and unpretentious.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColePatricio Guzmán's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, pays equal attention to the astronomers and searchers, regarding their quest as the same – a search for life.