Parasite (Gisaengchung)
The Lighthouse
Crawl
The Good Place
Got more questions about news letters? Email support@rottentomatoes.com
Already have an account? Log in here
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.
We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified.
Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service.
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.
All Critics (177) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (123) | Rotten (54)
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
Mark Romanek conjures visions of mortality via elegiac images of England's cozy landscape and haunting architecture. He lets the film unfold as a delicate mood piece, sustaining a tone of aching beauty with remarkable control. Aug 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Mark Romanek conjures visions of mortality via elegiac images of England's cozy landscape and haunting architecture. He lets the film unfold as a delicate mood piece, sustaining a tone of aching beauty with remarkable control.
Brian D. Johnson
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
View All Quotes
View All