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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: One of the truest, most beautiful movies ever made about two strangers. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: It is about the paradoxes and puzzlements of gay identity in a post-identity-politics era, and also about the enduring mystery of sexual attraction and its consequences. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: I hate to damage so fragile a work with overpraise, but, gay or straight, if you don't see yourself in this movie, you need to get a life. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: It's about love's essence, and the pain of its absence. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Cullen and New are British stage actors with little background in film. Haigh's only previous film was a documentary. Perhaps because they don't feel bound by a set of rules, they've created one of the year's most enjoyable surprises. Read more
Alison Willmore, AV Club: Its small scale allows for detailed looks at two men who are likeable and flawed, and who connect on a level neither expected -- nor in one case, was even looking for. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Writer-director Andrew Haigh, who's made several short films and one other feature while holding down big-studio editing gigs, allows the characters and their ideas to develop naturally. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: If this lovely movie proffers a thesis or a moral, it's a simple one. A more open, fully integrated and passionate life feeds the soul no less than air and water. Or coffee the morning after. Read more
Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post: Its final moments offer a vision of what a contemporary romance can achieve: an appreciative gasp of truth, a wet-eyed hope for more. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Boy meets boy in this low-budget, acutely observed relationship drama. Read more
Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: The two leading actors give deft, expressive performances that have us rooting for both of them. Cullen has a broodingly sensual presence, while the impish New makes a charmingly prickly foil. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A moving and empathetic look at how relationships develop, at how people fall in love and what that does and doesn't do to their lives. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: The bland sentimentality and dull attitudinizing turn the movie into an empty frame of good intentions. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Hile the credible script and naturalistic acting deserve praise, there's even a thrill in seeing romantic cliches -- you'll spot them all -- embraced anew. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Haigh avoids exploitation and cheap thrills in favor of a mature, incisive examination of relationships. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a smart, sensitive, perceptive film, with actors well suited to the dialogue. It underlines the difficulty of making connections outside our individual boxes of time and space. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: One of the bravest, most honest and most accomplished stories of gay love and sex ever rendered on film. Read more
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle: In just a short period of time, a weekend hookup tests the boundaries each man has set for himself. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: If you've ever met someone who changed your life in the space of days, you'll relate to something in this movie. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a definitive example of naturalistic moviemaking -- you feel you're breathing the air that the characters are breathing. Read more
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: I love what Haigh manages to achieve in his Weekend. The movie is political and challenging, but in an organic way. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Weekend settles into an intentionally minor-key groove, caught somewhere between bracingly direct honesty and cringingly mumbly pretense. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Sexy, provocative, engrossing and occasionally ornery, it should appeal to anyone whose curiosity about someone new has provoked them to question their own identity. Read more
Seth Colter Walls, Village Voice: Without spoiling what happens and how, it's fair to say the pivot away from Linklater-style sentimentality leaves little room for a sequel hook-up a decade down the road. Read more
Eric Hynes, Village Voice: Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental, Weekend is the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The organ that "Weekend" is most concerned with isn't the one you might think, but the human heart. Read more