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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew Barker[Swanberg's] latest work, All the Light in the Sky, displays a striking new willingness to meet his audience halfway, buttressing his signature style with clever pacing, solid technique and a deeply soulful lead performance from co-scripter Jane Adams.
- 75The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyLarge-scale anxieties about the future of the environment mingle with the characters’ small-scale anxieties about the present. The effect of this interplay will probably vary from viewer to viewer. As with Swanberg’s production methods, a lot depends on what you bring to the movie.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe cosmic and the microscopic are casually — and delicately — juxtaposed in All the Light in the Sky, an evocative, slightly melancholic movie.
- 60The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan RabinAll The Light In The Sky is a refreshingly grown-up exploration of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads that’s stronger for never pushing its narrative or its finely wrought lead character in the direction of big moments or bullshit epiphanies. It’s casual, but also quietly moving.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMarie is middle-aged and at a crossroads in All the Light in the Sky, a movie that feels the same way — listless and searching and on its way toward something good.
- 50Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneIn Joe Swanberg's disaffected little film, the drama is never explicit, or even fully conscious.
- 40Village VoiceInkoo KangVillage VoiceInkoo Kang[A] tediously naturalistic and fairly pointless no-budget indie about the compromises of middle-aged femininity.