"This might be the best movie of the year."
— Christy Lemire, FilmWeek (LAist)
"In every other way, though, it's a miracle of craftsmanship."
— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
"Once again, Trier defies convention by finding grace that is so profound it can be walloping."
— Esther Zuckerman, The Daily Beast
"Sentimental Value gives the audience a sense that they’ve lived an entire life in the span of a single movie."
— Thelma Adams, AARP Movies for Grownups
"A layered masterpiece that 'The Worst Person in the World' director Joachim Trier has been working toward for his entire career."
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"Trier deftly explores how familial trauma is held deep within the hearts, unwittingly passed along by generation and through the spaces we live in."
— Maxwell Rabb, Chicago Reader
"A story about home, inheritance, and fiction’s ability to reveal truths capable of bringing alienated individuals together, it’s a tumultuous, moving triumph."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
"The acting could not be better in this new film landmark spiked with laughs that can suddenly—or maybe not for hours or even days later—leave you choking with tears."
— Peter Travers, The Travers Take
"Trier’s film overflows with the kind of genuinely impactful potential that we go to the movies for, the type that leaves us feeling understood more than it makes us feel good."
— Coleman Spilde, Salon.com
"Fantastic performances across the board — especially by Reinsve and Fanning — and a keen sense of the meaning of the title make this film a bittersweet pleasure to watch."
— Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"Sentimental Value is about art and history and emotional openness, but it’s more than anything a playful but also wondrously frank exploration of what it actually means to be family."
— Alison Willmore, New York Magazine/Vulture
"A heart-swelling and unexpectedly humor-filled tale that will break you before it makes you whole again. You will leave the movie with a newfound gratitude for all that cinema can do."
— Tomris Laffly, Elle
"Trier, who has two young daughters himself, directs the whole affair with beauty and pathos and wit. His deeply humane film is an object lesson: You don’t need to be monomaniacal to make great art."
— Max Weiss, New York Magazine/Vulture
"It’s a movie that sneaks up on you like great fiction, blending theme and character in a way that allows it to live in your mind after you see it, rolling around what it means to both the people in it and your own life."
— Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
"Sentimental Value is essentially a double act between Skarsgård and Reinsve, and these two performers play off each other in a way that’s recognizable to anyone who’s struggled with paternal baggage, by which we mean everybody."
— David Fear, Rolling Stone
"Following a failed father and filmmaker attempting to connect with his daughters by turning the former family home into a set, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” is a subtle yet sweeping tapestry of art, family and connection that takes the breath away."
— Chase Hutchinson, TheWrap
"On its surface, the film may touch on the familiar theme of how artists draw from their own lives, but Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgard bring incredible tenderness to a story that is ultimately about what children and parents never say to one another."
— Tim Grierson, Screen International
