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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Aug 2022

Miller asks the audience to level up its existential exploration, posing questions about the purpose of storytelling and, perhaps, about the…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Aug 2022

[Miller's] mastery makes the movie eye-popping; his freedom and audacity make it surprising and unsettling…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 25 Aug 2022

It’s an elegant and highly unexpected offering from George Miller that allows him to step away from the Mad Max universe if only for one interlude…

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By Ross Bonaime (185) for Collider (1,032) on 25 Aug 2022

Miller’s modern fairly tale is full of beauty, love, and care, even if the film often focuses on the grand instead of the modest moments…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Aug 2022

In its loopy, beguiling, occasionally befuddling way, Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like it’s trying—and sometimes failing—to…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 25 Aug 2022

For the most part, Three Thousand Years of Longing reads not as an unintended allegory of contemporary race relations but as a thoughtful,…

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By Karen Gordon (174) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 24 Aug 2022

Director George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing, with its superb A-list cast led by Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, plays quite nicely…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 24 Aug 2022

Even if it ultimately doesn’t quite take off, it’s a marvel of craft and care and detail. It’s also not quite like anything else…

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By Qina Liu (3) for The Seattle Times (964) on 24 Aug 2022

Three Thousand Years of Longing is a cerebral film that barters in riddles. It’s a cautionary fairy tale about wishful thinking…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 24 Aug 2022

Three Thousand Years of Longing actually ends on a creative high note, but the path to that conclusion is filled with muddled adventures that…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 Aug 2022

What should be a cinematic journey into amazement and otherworldly adventure instead becomes a tedious, word-heavy slog — all the more disappointing…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 23 Aug 2022

Miller gets to play in a wide array of cultures as the djinn skips through time, all with their own shimmering palettes and fairy tale hyperrealism…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 23 Aug 2022

Thus, despite being stuffed full of inventive, near-visionary visuals, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” winds up feeling a little incomplete…

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By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 23 Aug 2022

Where Mad Max: Fury Road was lean, Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like a rough draft that should have stayed in a dusty bin somewhere…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Aug 2022

George Miller’s film is a passionate exploration of how image-making is inextricable from storytelling…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 18 Aug 2022

Miller’s film, based on an A.S…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 May 2022

As swings go, Three Thousand Years of Longing is a miss, but there is something infectious about Miller’s confidence here: you’re never…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 23 May 2022

The highest purpose of movies is to give us more than what we think we want, and even though Three Thousand Years of Longing offers plenty…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 May 2022

A romantic fantasia set in Istanbul, George Miller’s mystical confection operates like the genie at its heart: it’s full of visual sleight-of-hand…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 May 2022

The individual tales, though ornamented with all manner of fabulous CGI curlicues, are overly busy and only mildly involving, and “Three…

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