The Farewell (2019) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 3

21-40 of 47 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2019

The film taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 12 Jul 2019

A small, melancholy movie that explores cultural differences and dealing with death in an utterly charming, understated manner…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 12 Jul 2019

The Farewell resists any temptation to be a wacky, extended family comedy and instead stays true to the sadness of its central premise…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 11 Jul 2019

The subject matter is inevitably somber, but the picture is also mischievously funny…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 11 Jul 2019

Wang, who has made only one prior feature (the little-seen 2014 comedy Posthumous), distinguishes herself as a thrilling new voice in filmmaking…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Jul 2019

In The Farewell, Wang builds a funny, touching and vital film about what makes a family in any culture. It’s simply stunning…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Jul 2019

Wang’s story outline shares the familiar contours of other immigrant tales: the Babel tower of half-spoken languages; the ties that bind…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Jul 2019

A funny, emotionally intricate and deeply moving tale of severed connections and renewed family ties…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Jul 2019

Its affection for its characters feels protective; the film is reluctant to spill any secrets or cause any embarrassment…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 10 Jul 2019

The film is a heady, gentle and emotional journey, but Wang also packs the frame with layered conversation and funny background action…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Jul 2019

With impeccable craft, Wang has created a funny, heartfelt and bittersweet film that will ring riotously true for anyone who knows the joys…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 10 Jul 2019

Grief and love coexist in The Farewell, as do truth and fiction, past and present, sorrow and joy…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 09 Jul 2019

It’s one of the year’s sweetest films…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 09 Jul 2019

Awkwafina’s true skill as a remarkably sensitive collaborator has only recently been revealed—last year doing broad comedy in Crazy Rich…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Jul 2019

While writer/director Lulu Wang’s film is obviously personal and culturally specific, it achieves a universality and a resonance through…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Beatrice Loayza (94) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Jul 2019

From a distance, The Farewell can look scattered, a series of ambling vignettes on the tradition-rooted quirks of modern China and the nature…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Tomris Laffly (460) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Feb 2019

Delightfully embracing the specificity of Eastern culture, The Farewell reflects on collective considerations versus individualism, not unlike…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 01 Feb 2019

The little dramas and themes that emerge during the reunion of the film’s far-flung brood become, like a family, more than the sum of its…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s Wang’s singular gift for life’s simplest moments which makes The Farewell ring so truthfully bare, funny and emotional…

Read Review

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Feb 2019

Bittersweet, touching and always funny, The Farewell is lived-in from top to toe…

Read Review

Page 2 of 3

More reviews of this movie:

Tzi Ma - Top 5 movies:

Awkwafina - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door

2006

43%1 Review

I Don't Want to Talk About It

1993

72%2 Reviews

Thousand Pieces of Gold

1991

68%6 Reviews

The Son of the Shark

1993

70%2 Reviews

Song of Songs

2015

67%1 Review

The Company of Strangers

1990

77%23 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Love

2015

54%174 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Parasite

2019

88%251 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Gone Girl

2014

81%1,229 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Farewell

2019

80%97 Reviews

Strange Magic

2015

51%435 Reviews

Slaughter of the Innocents

1993

47%4 Reviews

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

2015

57%1,035 Reviews

Devil's Due

2014

34%396 Reviews

Speed

1994

76%700 Reviews

Allure

2018

50%37 Reviews

Return to Halloweentown

2006

69%149 Reviews

American Hustle

2013

75%1,091 Reviews

Midnight Special

2016

67%764 Reviews