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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Un capolavoro. Da non perdere.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Haynes has allowed his stars, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (as well as Sarah Paulsen and Kyle Chandler, both terrific) to plant seeds into the soil of his film and the rest of it appears to have sprouted around them. They are of their world and their world is of them.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Matt Brown @ TwitchFilm
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: One of the year’s best, an emotionally rich lesbian love story.
- Francisco Cangiano @ CineXpress [Spanish]
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: with its autumnal color palette, French horn laden Carter Burwell score and story of forbidden love, there may be a sense of having gone down this road before with Haynes.
- David Crow @ Den of Geek
- Excerpt: The film is so restrained that Carol and Therese’s love feels as immaculately furnished as anything else in Carol’s home. Except for the fireplace; this movie’s temperature is too low for that.
- Rob Daniel @ Electric Shadows
- Excerpt: Heartbreaking and intoxicating, Carol is a majestic experience.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Carol is a fine, elegant melodrama—nothing more and nothing less.
- Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Honestly, I don’t believe in the sincerity of this love story, but Carol accomplishes something more interesting—it honors authenticity, devalues social convention and wealth, and presents a capstone tale that validates the tremendous gains made by the LGBTQ community in the past few years.
- John Gilpatrick @ JohnLikesMovies.com
- Excerpt: You think you know what it is to want until you sit in stunned silence following two hours of Todd Haynes’ Carol.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Perhaps I was expecting too much, but I was disappointed in Todd Haynes’ tasteful, yet tedious, lesbian melodrama, finding it furtive, overly fetishistic and formalized.
- Phil Hall @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Cate Blanchett’s acting is so broad and unsubtle that “Carol” feels like a “Carol Burnett Show” parody
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Carol is an exquisite drama that manages to capture a moment in time, not as it really was, but how we romanticize it to be. The polite nod, the gracious smile, the unspoken thought, all confirm a cultivated behavior that complements a rich visual tableau.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Flawless in every way: sumptuous visually and emotionally. One of the more mature and sophisticated romances the big screen has ever seen.
- Allyson Johnson @ CambridgeDay.com
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: I walked out of the theater thoroughly enchanted with the ending, which is so well put together it borders on pure cinematic art. It is a stellar cap to put on a somewhat drab love story draped in exceedingly competent filmmaking.
- Steve Katz @ The Alpha Primitive
- Excerpt: Todd Haynes, alongside his considerably talented cast and crew, has made one for the ages, a period piece that transcends all periods. Carol is life. Carol is love.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- [New – 2/18/16] | Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: Despite year-end plaudits and the promising reunion of Haynes and cinematographer Lachman, this proves a fairly anemic forbidden-love melodrama … Blanchett turns in a rare one-note perfomance.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Love. Aching, forbidden love. Society’s strictures on the time, place and content of openly expressed love have evolved over time, but the universality of hiding it away from others out of fear will always find root in our minds. Todd Haynes’ gorgeous Sirkian period drama Carol brings a haunting love affair to life with passion, keen observation and an understanding that true love transcends time and place.
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: Carol is a sublime love story, one that brims with the fiery passion of first love bulging at the seams of its societal prison. It is a major work by a major filmmaker, working at a level of narrative grace and elegance that is almost unmatched in contemporary cinema.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A beguiling story of two people from different worlds who come together powerfully.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: It will work on the mind, and with the critics, but will it stay in the heart?
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
- Excerpt: At its core Carol is a tale of love at first sight and the messiness that unsolicited bond manufactures. More than that, though, it’s a poignant document of personal evolution towards clarity and acceptance in oneself no matter the external interferences.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Carol’ is like falling in love.
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Amazing! I can’t understand why the Academy left this one out of the Best Pictures nominees!
- Courtney Small @ Cinema Axis
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Exquisite…a small film, but it’s like a flawless gem with endless facets to explore and appreciate.
- Rob Wallis @ The Metropolist
- Excerpt: Haynes’ film is beautiful, powerful and subtle, full of sweetness and light, desire and heartbreak.
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