Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Kore-eda desea que dejemos de ir por la vida entendiendo el mundo a partir de una sola versión. Por eso pasamos de creer que Minato, el hijo de Saori, es una víctima del bullying en su escuela, a pensar que es él el abusador, para terminar descubriendo que lo que pasa es todavía más complejo.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: For the first time…Kore-eda works from a screenplay he did not write and yet Sakamoto Yûji appears to reference several of Kore-eda’s films within a “Rashomon”-like story that shifts our perspective with its three points of view over three acts.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Renowned filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda delivers an intriguing psychological drama that constantly contradicts our comprehension of the truth.
- [New] | Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: Working from a sensitive script by Yuji Sakamoto that won Best Screenplay at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Kore-eda weaves a complex, Rashomon-style tapestry of a tale, one in which affection is mistaken for bullying, support is mistaken for abuse, and lies—the ones we tell others and the ones we tell ourselves—are repeatedly mistaken for truth.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Screenwriter Yûji Sakamoto intentionally tells this story of a young boy three times with vary degrees of detail augmented by each chapter’s specific vantage point. He sets our expectations with the desire to upend them. Will it be for better or worse?
- Jacob Oller @ Paste Magazine
- Excerpt: Even if the surprising Monster isn’t always delicate enough, Kore-eda’s tenderness makes you realize that those who hide under the bed were driven there.
