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John Hartl, Seattle Times: Although Father and Son is never as deep or wrenching as Mother and Son, the careful casting and Sokurov's unique visual style continue to make this a series worth following. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The best way to watch Father and Son is to let it wash over you and not be overly concerned with prosaic matters like plot. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Poised and teasing in a way that might incite less patient viewers to madness. But you don't come to Sokurov for his narrative agility, you come for his rhapsodic longueurs. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Nothing much happens by way of plot in the course of Father and Son, but it offers a fresh and often startling vision of one of the most fundamental relationships between human beings. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Has the tedium without the trance. Read more

Walter Chaw, L.A. Weekly: The emotions of the piece pulse in and out like submerged things coming to light, or visions in a trance. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A more naked movie than Father and Son is hard to imagine and would be impossible to watch. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Alexander Sokurov's new film is like a dream, or a half-translated poem. Its images and emotions are memorable and vivid, but its intentions often feel stubbornly hermetic. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: A tasty hors d'oeuvre while waiting for a really good French film to come along. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: At once challenging and ravishing. Read more

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Deborah Young, Variety: One has the feeling the director has let himself go off the deep end regarding the romantic and idealizing tendencies that, for better or worse, characterize much of his work. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Borders on the risible but, because Sokurov is Sokurov, this exalted, wacky scenario ... is amazingly staged, inventively edited, and rich in audio layering, with camera placements that sometimes verge on the Brakhagian. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Here was my question for most of this movie: Wha-? I was clueless. Did not understand. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The film may be maddeningly obtuse, but its images are dazzling. Read more