85
Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterAn intense romance notable for the craft of the filmmaking and Diop’s original approach to complex issues of love, loss and the forces for change that can rise from the ashes of tragedy.
- It bears the aesthetic and thematic hallmarks of an expertly rendered film with an impressively nuanced subjectivity.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawAtlantique may not be perfect, but I admired the way that Diop did not simply submit to the realist mode expected from this kind of material, and yet neither did she go into a cliched magic-realist mode, nor make the romantic story the film’s obvious centre. Her film has a seductive mystery.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinA lot of ideas about class, post-imperialism and spiritual values peek up out of the surface of the text, but they're not developed with much rigor compared to what Diop conjured with more intensity and less time in A Thousand Suns. All the same, this is a striking work.
- 80CineVueMartyn ConterioCineVueMartyn ConterioIt doesn’t quite click, is too weird, leads to a lurch from one cinematic style to the other and fails to gel as a satisfying whole. Yet the director’s imaginative intention is apparent in the first shot.
- 67The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdAtlantics is most successful as a look at a particular milieu, which makes one wonder if Diop might have been better off just making a longer nonfiction film on the subject.
- 60VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergThe result offers mixed levels of satisfaction, most successful in capturing the protagonist’s leap into adulthood and her increasing reliance on the forthright, independent-minded women around her.