Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Nov 7, 2022 3.5/4

Christie and Pinsent offer two of the most substantial, affecting performances of 2007.

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Nov 21, 2019 A

Polley's direction is simple, yet assured, with a vision that allows the actors to shine. The cast is more than up to the task.

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Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jul 6, 2019 3.5/4

Polley displays a keen understanding of the sense of confusion and loss that goes along with Alzheimer's, and she handles it well, guiding the film with a warmth, humor, and heart.

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Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) Aug 23, 2017

That the film does justice to the original short story is saying something.

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Nell Minow Movie Mom Feb 14, 2012 B

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Cliff Doerksen Time Out Nov 18, 2011 5/5

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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Nov 17, 2011 5/5

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Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Sep 25, 2010 3.5/4

No one dreams of the twilight transpiring in "Away From Her," but, in its words, it's not bad luck. It's just life. You can't beat life. A tenderly told tragedy about Alzheimer's Disease's erosive effects, Sarah Polley's film avoids movie-of-the-week sap.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 27, 2009

Too content with its own "maturity" and "restraint," yet it invaluably offers Christie for audiences in delicate contemplation, and chaste consummation

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Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Oct 18, 2008 2.5/4

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Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Jun 13, 2008 4/5

Christie is brilliant as steely but brittle Fiona, a woman who knows her mind completely and yet, in the end, cannot hang on to it, while Pinsent eloquently portrays the gradual ebbing away of a partnership, as delicate and unstoppable as snow-melt.

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Enrique Buchichio Uruguay Total Feb 20, 2008 3/5

Una bella historia de amor a merced de una enfermedad, filmada con delicadeza por Sarah Polley y sensiblemente interpretada por Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent y Olympia Dukakis.

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Feb 14, 2008 4/5

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Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight Feb 2, 2008 4/4

A beautifully acted, poignant film about a man who slowly loses his wife to Alzheimer's.

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Jan 12, 2008 B

A complex series of relationships revolve around a nursing home romance.

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Prairie Miller NewsBlaze Dec 27, 2007

Julie Christie as an Alzheimer's afflicted wife achieves the perfect psychological mixture of despair, mystery, rebellion against the unappreciated devotion that has been her lot in married life, and an ultimate odd but eloquent personal liberation.

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Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Dec 20, 2007

Hallmark card presentation of the onset of Alzheimer's. Totally sincere and totally unrealistic.

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Beth Accomando KPBS.org Dec 11, 2007

Christie (with whom Polley acted in Hal Hartley's No Such Thing) is still a radiant presence at 66 and she rivets us to the screen.

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Peter Calder New Zealand Herald Oct 26, 2007 5/5

Of the four brilliant performances that sustain it, the standout is by Julie Christie, ravishing at 66, who communicates as much with utter stillness as in her beautifully articulated lines.

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S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media Oct 22, 2007 4/5

Memorable Alzheimer's drama OK for teens and up.

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