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- 100Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterPoetically composed, with marvelous lumps of wit and perspective, Of Times and The City is a masterwork.
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIt is a deeply personal piece of art that never descends into the confessional or the therapeutic, and a work of social and literary criticism that never lectures or hectors, but rather, with melancholy, tenderness and wit, manages to sing.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMost of all, Davies proves himself to be a poet of the commonplace whose art is the exalting of the everyday. He may rail against "the British genius for creating the dismal," but his own work is anything but.
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasA caustic, witty, regretful elegy for a place so transformed that it's virtually unrecognizable.
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe film is made up chiefly of found footage and therefore lacks the mise en scene of its predecessors, but it has the added benefit of Davies's voice-over narration, which, thanks to his training and experience as an actor, is enormously powerful.
- 80VarietyVarietyResult is by turns moving, droll and charming, and niftily assembled, but not necessarily that profound.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSan Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubThe result is a warm and extremely thoughtful journey, with a deliberately bare-bones narrative.
- 50Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanTerence Davies revisits his youth to decidedly mixed effect.