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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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By Ryan Leston (31) for IGN (1,013) on 22 May 2022

While Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba give it their all, neither can save the film from collapsing in the third act…

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By Rafael Motamayor (108) for Slashfilm (971) on 21 May 2022

Three Thousand Years of Longing tells a fantastic and poignant story about storytelling, longing, and love…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2022

The cumulative merits on display in Miller’s museum of amazement, from the whiz-bang recreations of freakified old-world grandeur to the…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC (137) on 21 May 2022

If a screenplay is going to be fixated on the history and purpose of storytelling, the stories within it have to be better…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for The Guardian (2,969) on 21 May 2022

Three Thousand Years of Longing is guileless, open-hearted, like an antiquarian bookseller’s dream of The Thief of Baghdad…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 21 May 2022

While Swinton and Elba make smooth work of the fairy-tale-toned dialogue, they simply lack the chemistry to make their tryst convince as romance…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 20 May 2022

In fact, the two stars are so sweet and searching together — their characters’ respective power and mutual solitude pulling them together…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 20 May 2022

It’s a curious film, messy in all its ambition but consistently transfixing, an earnest labor of love—and one about love…

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