The World to Come (2021) Reviews & Ratings

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The World to Come reviews

The World to Come holds a 7.0/10 average from 422 TMDB ratings.

If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com I'm admittedly not the biggest lover of period pieces or romances set in past centuries. As weird and maybe even unfair as it might sound, in a general way, the dialogues always feel just way too poetic and overly sophisticated for my taste. When it comes to emotional investment in a character or in a relationship, I nee…
— Manuel São Bento (5/10)

“The World to Come,” the film adaptation of Jim Shepard‘s 2017 short story of the same name, is just as sophisticated and lovely as the author’s elegant prose. Shepard also co-authored the screenplay (with Ron Hansen), and his eloquent writing makes for a lovely film about two women longing for intimacy in the 1800s. In upstate New York, Abigail (Katherine Waterston) is devastated by grief when her only child dies a…
— Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots (8/10)

In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.

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