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With Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek has delivered a graceful adaptation that captures the spirit of the Ishiguro novel -- which will be precisely the problem for some viewers.
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Director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) gives the slow-burning adult drama a nostalgic, almost lyrical glow where hope and acceptance override any impulse to rebel or even question. Mar 31, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) gives the slow-burning adult drama a nostalgic, almost lyrical glow where hope and acceptance override any impulse to rebel or even question.
Jim Schembri
Real men will see this and weep, as I did. It is one of the most moving and profound films in a long time. Mar 30, 2011 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Real men will see this and weep, as I did. It is one of the most moving and profound films in a long time.
Paul Byrnes
Deeply moving. Feb 10, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Deeply moving.
Matt Bochenski
Pretty, empty, and immediately forgettable. Feb 9, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Pretty, empty, and immediately forgettable.
Tom Huddleston
The film withholds the explicit fear and passion that another kind of treatment might have aimed for, but it works as a cogent, subdued parable of mortality. Oct 14, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film withholds the explicit fear and passion that another kind of treatment might have aimed for, but it works as a cogent, subdued parable of mortality.
Peter Bradshaw
Like all the best sci-fi, it's about how we live now, rather than the future. Oct 13, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Like all the best sci-fi, it's about how we live now, rather than the future.
Nick Curtis
In struggling to meet the profound levels of its literary forbearer, the film finds itself in that unfortunate no-man's land between light entertainment and high-end art - satisfying neither the movie aficionado nor the casual cinema-goer. Nov 6, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
In struggling to meet the profound levels of its literary forbearer, the film finds itself in that unfortunate no-man's land between light entertainment and high-end art - satisfying neither the movie aficionado nor the casual cinema-goer.
Matthew Groizard
Tragic, beautiful and simultaneously strange and familiar, Never Let Me Go serves a unique slant on the universal human condition. Nov 6, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Tragic, beautiful and simultaneously strange and familiar, Never Let Me Go serves a unique slant on the universal human condition.
Natasha Hodgson
Perhaps such passive solemnity is true to the book, but on screen, along with the sad tinkling piano and the sad violins that just won't quit, the overall effect is so enervating that you simply don't feel a damned thing. Aug 30, 2018 | Full Review…
Perhaps such passive solemnity is true to the book, but on screen, along with the sad tinkling piano and the sad violins that just won't quit, the overall effect is so enervating that you simply don't feel a damned thing.
Deborah Ross
Never Let Me Go is an unrelentingly bleak film in which you watch these three characters grow up and march towards their doom. May 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Never Let Me Go is an unrelentingly bleak film in which you watch these three characters grow up and march towards their doom.
Charlie Jane Anders
The lack of dramatic tension means it's difficult to emotionally connect with the central characters and their dilemma. May 14, 2018
The lack of dramatic tension means it's difficult to emotionally connect with the central characters and their dilemma.
Kaleem Aftab
Only when the girls team up does the film start to fulfill its promise. Jan 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Only when the girls team up does the film start to fulfill its promise.
Lynden Barber
This melancholy and depressing film adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian sci-fi novel tells an achingly sad story that eschews any easy preaching and offers a delicate meditation on time and the transience of life, with very intense performances by its main trio.
Super Reviewer
A sad tone poem about the lives of clones developed purely to harvest their body parts. Can't say more than that, can one? But I'll try. Good performances, solid production values and yet ... the whole movie's like getting a bowl of hot, melted ice cream at your dearly beloved grandmother's funeral. Like taking a group of puppies to the animal shelter. Like being the only one to work on Christmas Day and finding you have to do a double cause yer relief's not coming in. You get it. I kept asking myself: " How long can this go on?"
I can understand that the message the film gives is pretty awesome. However, I couldn't really connect with the movie as much as I wanted to. I felt most of it was forced and too dour to be relatable.
Excellent acting takes you on a journey into a world that could easily be . . dark, haunting, and very heartbreaking story of coming to age knowing what will be at the end of the journey . .completion . .
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