Godland

critic Reviews

, 91% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Necessarily bleak but shot through with moments of humor, the beautifully filmed Godland serves as a gently absorbing meditation on mortality.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Paul ByrnesSydney Morning Herald
    Like all the best movies, we can’t tell where this is going. When it arrives, the finale is worthy of all that has come before. Nobody makes movies like this any more -- except that some do.
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    Whelan BarzeyTime Out
    You’d be hard pressed to find a more immersive Winter Wonderland experience than Godland.
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    Ty BurrTy Burr's Watch List
    It's an unforgettable movie yet one whose meanings seem to lie just beyond reach, and it marks the arrival of a new filmmaker whose roots tap into something unfathomably old.
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    Richard LawsonVanity Fair
    The film is an effectively somber, despairing meditation on faith, vanity, and colonialism. While much of his film is austere, Pálmason employs a few flashy techniques to enhance the eerie mood of existential unease.
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    Mark KermodeObserver (UK)
    [Leaves] the viewer with a sense of being engulfed by a landscape in which cultures collide – the incarnate and the infinite forever butting heads, neither willing to concede hard-won ground.
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    Kevin MaherTimes (UK)
    The paltry comforts of organised religion in the face of nature is the subject of this spectacular epic...
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    Frank J. AvellaAwards Daily
    While I appreciate Pálmason’s scope and ambition and admire his austere and contemplative style, I found the experience to be more of a slog than the transfixing epic it should have been.
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    Stephanie BunburyDeadline Hollywood Daily
    No doubt Palmason will keep working to achieve a film that strikes that elusive balance of pace and pitch. He’s so close now.
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    Randy MeeksEspinof
    Godland may not be a masterpiece, but it is an increasingly rare example of contemplative cinema, only this time it hides its poisonous stinger in beauty and lies until it becomes capable of piercing you... [Full review in Spanish]
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    David GriffithsSubculture Entertainment
    I want to say that this is nearly a perfect film but there are a couple of inconsistencies that I just can't ignore.
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