88
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisLove suffuses Pictures of Ghosts, a cleareyed, deeply personal and formally inspired rumination on life, death, family, movies and those complicated, invariably haunted places we call home.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreNew York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmorePictures of Ghosts is so lovely and alive that, if anything, it only reassures you that movies aren’t going anywhere.
- 88RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe one constant of life is change, and our own individual relations to the place we grew up, or came of age, in are invariably complicated not by just the alterations in the landscape but the way our perspectives shift...The Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho understands this feeling just as well as I and maybe you do, and he’s made a lovely, enveloping film about it, called “Pictures of Ghosts.”
- 85The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerPictures of Ghosts isn’t a timeline but a winding journey through remembrances of things past, and it moves with entrancing gracefulness through a history that’s near and dear to Kleber Filho’s heart.
- 81Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpPaste MagazineAndrew CrumpFilho is self-reflective, not self-obsessed, and his clear-eyed stance is crucial to the anti-vanity he brings to his examination of his childhood home and youthful obsession.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineAs always with Kleber Mendonça Filho, to reflect reality isn’t enough, as cinema has to find its own truth, even if it takes some imagination to get there.