A brutal, trippy portrait of what it must feel like to lose your grip on reality boasts an Oscar-worthy performance
- Guardian
It's a tough watch but a structurally powerful piece of storytelling with a powerhouse performance at its center, matched by a supporting ensemble that doesn't have a weak link.
- Roger Ebert
Over the course of 97 increasingly grim minutes, Zeller's puzzle-box drama distills the abstract concept of senility into an ontological experience that denies your sympathy at almost every turn.
- IndieWire
For those who can stomach it, it'll stay with you, for longer than you might like. I know it will stay with me.
- Guardian
All the actors in "The Father" are vivid (Colman brings her role a loving vulnerability that warms you), but Hopkins is flat-out stunning.
- Variety
Anthony Hopkins recently earned the fifth Oscar nomination of his career in "The Two Popes," but he's already topped himself for his best work this century (yes, century) with Florian Zeller's "The Father."
- The Playlist
By messing with the geography of the apartment and the identities of its characters, The Father makes us see and digest and experience the frighteningly unsystematic loss of mental control.
- Film Companion
Only just February and it looks like we've already got an Oscar nominee.
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