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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisEven if you don’t recognize the majority of the unidentified clips assembled here, or the quotations that divide and guide them, the fascination they exert is all their own.
- 80Village VoiceSam WeisbergVillage VoiceSam WeisbergAndersen's restless yet scholarly methods are contagious: He makes you want to become more well-rounded.
- 75Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoThom Andersen attempts to establish unity by effectively bridging vast swaths of film history into one cohesive body of work.
- 67The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdAt its best, The Thoughts That Once We Had functions like a kind of film-buff mixtape, queuing up one magic moment after another. But the quasi-academic aims of the project mute Andersen’s passion; the director must have felt he needed a respectable framework for his cinephilia, but the personal component often seems directly at odds with the Deleuze component.