The Five Senses Critic Reviews

A brilliant film--vivid, haunting, intelligent and in good taste, wonderfully acted, wonderfully written and directed.Read the full review

A deft, elegant, melancholy tapestry of flawed outreach, and the big reason it succeeds is Podeswa's courage in dispensing with a lot of exposition and trusting the audience - and the faces of the actors - to fill a lot of what otherwise would be gaps.Read the full review

The five stories in The Five Senses flawlessly and even artfully create a unified mood.Read the full review

A lot more than the sum of its delicately balanced parts.Read the full review

A story like Five Senses sounds like a gimmick, but Podeswa has a light touch when dealing with the senses and a sure one when telling his stories.Read the full review

An elegant, deliberate film about loneliness and hope, connection and loss.Read the full review

Narratively club-footed but directorially assured.Read the full review

Our senses may be the stuff of drama, but not when they're treated as nice and neat as this.Read the full review