Yes Critic Reviews
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Alive and daring.Read the full review
For those who accept Potter's premise -- and why not embark on a challenging, enriching experience? -- this is a unique, bold adventure of the soul.Read the full review
Bold, vibrant and impassioned, Yes is the work of a high-risk film artist in command of her medium and gifted in propelling her actors to soaring performances.Read the full review
Like Potter's "Orlando" and "The Tango Lesson," Yes showcases a craft and a hushed, vibrant intensity that prove compelling even when the story loses its focus.Read the full review
Parse the philosophy behind the spill of words, though, and you'll find intellectual jumble, junk. Better to nod to Yes as a drowsing chant than take it seriously as a statement of global concerns.Read the full review
Despite many interesting mise-en-scene moments, the film disappointingly feels as sterile as the family's immaculately clean house. In a sense, the movie is too ambitious.Read the full review
Yes is more of a maybe. Or even a hmmm.Read the full review
Ultimately has nothing of any real depth or profundity to say, but a thousand self-consciously complex ways of saying it.Read the full review
It's a bold exercise, an interesting experiment, but a movie it ain't.Read the full review
Yes is not just a movie, in other words, it's a poem. A bad poem. There is no denying Ms. Potter's skill at versifying - or for that matter, at composing clear, striking visual images - but her intricate, measured lines amount to doggerel, not art.Read the full review
