I've Loved You So Long Critic Reviews

Kristin Scott Thomas' performance in I've Loved You So Long is one of a small handful of highlights by which people will remember this year in movies. This is acting at its most exalted.Read the full review

Performances this strong and direction this sensitive make us simply grateful to have an emotional story we can sink our teeth into and enjoy.Read the full review

Philippe Claudel gives his heroine unusual depth, which Kristin Scott Thomas reveals with unusual passion.Read the full review

Their characters' desire (Scott Thomas and Zylberstein) -- no, need -- to repair their fragile bond feels as achingly real as the mother lode of hidden pain that gets exposed by the work of these two great actresses.Read the full review

This is one of Kristin Scott Thomas' most inspired performances.Read the full review

The film deftly sketches a sibling relationship complicated by obligation, guilt, mistrust, and, not least, an abiding love.Read the full review

A revelation comes near the end that is both tremendously moving and a bit disappointing, in the way that the solutions to great mysteries frequently are. This turn does not diminish the accomplishment of Ms. Scott Thomas's deep, subtle and altogether stunning performance, but it does alter the scale of the movie, turning it into a more manageable, less existentially unsettling drama.Read the full review

A scintillating drama about pain and healing made with intelligence and compassion.Read the full review

A movie that is utterly engrossing despite being, on the surface, about very little.Read the full review