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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe camera often seems to capture seemingly quotidian moments, but Koberidze’s painterly eye elevates them to intimate flashes of poetry and delight.
- 90Screen DailyJonathan RomneyScreen DailyJonathan RomneyIn the sheer exuberance of its exploratory spirit, Koberidze’s film is very much of benefit to cinema – and any who feared that the art form was running out of new ways to find poetry in the real.
- 90VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangWe are active participants in the creation of this (or any) work of cinema. And given how much this movie loves the movies, as well as dogs, music, children, soccer, ice cream, the ancient Georgian town of Kutaisi, and the very process of falling in love, there is something immensely hopeful and moving about being thus invited to collude.
- 88RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyIn the meantime, this movie means to make us notice the marvelous in the everyday, in much the way that a great James Schuyler poem does.
- 83IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichToo distracted to be a love story, too contained to be a city symphony, and not didactic enough to feel like an essay film, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? gradually coalesces into a kind of abstract pastoral romance more than anything else — it finds the romance that fringes everything around us, and captures it on camera with the unbearable lightness of a movie that knows we could never hope to see it with the naked eye.
- 75The Film StageOrla SmithThe Film StageOrla SmithMore than a romance, or a fairy tale about sentient security cameras, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is an ode to living in the moment and finding beauty in the familiar. It’s an endurance test of a film, but one rich with detail, if you have the patience to look for it.
- 70Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerPaste MagazineBrianna ZiglerWhat Do We See When We Look at the Sky? is an apt, simple fable that feels somewhat hopeful for our modern world—one where evil wins, but love overcomes.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisPleasing, exasperating, poignant and coy, “What Do We See” is a loose, exceedingly leisurely meander through a series of momentous and banal moments that take place during an amble through the Georgian city of Kutaisi.
- 63Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayThe film is an offbeat epic informed by a reverence for the past and a delicate wariness toward the future.