88
Metascore
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The A.V. ClubJosh ModellThe A.V. ClubJosh ModellThere’s enough material in these years to make for half a dozen more focused documentaries, but none could hope to be as heartbreaking and redemptive as this panoramic longview.
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottI’ve rarely seen a movie about citizenship as quietly eloquent as Quest.
- 90Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan Scherstuhl[A] tender, humane, gently probing film.
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternQuest is intimate, warm yet unsentimental and agreeably rambling, at least for a while. It’s an extended visit, squeezed into 104 minutes, with intensely likable people who are doing their best to hold things together, and, if possible, get a bit ahead.
- 88Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonPhiladelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonA movie that could have been about loss and defeat becomes something else — a testament to spiritual stamina, to the power of family bonds and their importance to homes, to streets, to neighborhoods and to cities.
- 80Total FilmMatt LookerTotal FilmMatt LookerFilmmaker Jonathan Olshefski illuminates the rich, strife-filled lives of these extraordinary people.
- 75The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdBy the end of Quest, I felt melancholy about saying goodbye to the Raineys and sad that I wouldn’t know where their lives would go from here.
- 67The Film StageMichael SnydelThe Film StageMichael SnydelThere’s a great documentary in Quest, but this is a case of a film that’s trying to cover too many things, and thus only muddles its own intentions.
- Sadly, the problems affecting the Raineys, the African American family whose north Philadelphia home accommodates this heartening documentary, are all too familiar: poverty, drugs, gun violence.