Becoming Astrid
Music Box Films | Release Date: November 23, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 27, 2018
Erik Molberg Hansen’s relaxed camera movements and fuzzy-soft compositions are quite beautiful, and the performances — including the superb Trine Dyrholm as the baby’s Danish foster mother — are pitch-perfect. Best of all is the magnetic August, whose open, mobile features can slide from plain to lovely with just a shift in the light and whose embrace of the character is a joy to watch. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 5, 2018
Throughout Becoming Astrid, August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 28, 2018
This familiar-sounding melodrama works because of the extraordinary performance, in the title role, by Alba August, a young actress whose every emotion is made manifest, like passing clouds or a burst of sunshine, on her uncannily expressive face. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 23, 2018
This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson. Read full review
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Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghDec 5, 2018
This is not a flat and lifeless biopic in which a creation loses a bit of its wonder in the dissection of its inspiration. “Becoming Astrid” sidesteps that pitfall by focusing on the writer’s painful passage into womanhood, telling an intimate and unhurried story of quiet triumph over pain. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 20, 2018
The film’s occasional flatness of tone isn’t always well-used — these may be the raw materials for a classic Hollywood weepie, but sometimes you want to see filmmaking, not a camera pointed in the general direction of who’s talking. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiDec 5, 2018
Becoming Astrid’s saving grace is Alba August. She is in almost every frame of this film, and gives life to what, on paper, amounts to a Lifetime channel biopic. Read full review
50
Slant MagazinePat BrownNov 17, 2018
Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality. Read full review
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