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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.0184

Avg Critic Score:3.3171

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filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)

Confirming that Romanian cinema has become a true force to be reckoned with, Cristian Mungiu follows in the steps of Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest with his devastating look at one day in the ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Cabin)

TVGuide review

The winner of the top prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival is a stunning, at times harrowing look at the plight of a young Romanian woman who, over the course of a single day, tries to help her friend procure something highly illegal and equally ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at TVGuide review

EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

It's only Day One of the festival and Cannes is already a showcase for another stunning and revelatory work from Romania: 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, the second feature of Cristian Mungiu. Exploring the private traumas of two women who undertake a ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

Boston Globe (Ty Burr)

Otilia seems an unlikely candidate for sainthood, but maybe that's the point. As played by Anamaria Marinca, a big-boned dirty blonde who's only beautiful in repose or in retrospect, Otilia's a college student in Bucharest, Romania, during the final ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)

Set in 1987 in the last days of the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania, it follows -- in a series of mesmerizing long takes and real-time scenes -- the efforts of a college girl arranging an illegal abortion for her roommate. It confronts the polarizing ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) Critic Reviews continued...

Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)

Iâ��m a big fan of grim realism and no one does it better than the Romanians. Think that countryâ��s â��The Death of Mr. Lazarescuâ�� â�� a bleak look at one manâ��s disquieting journey navigating the sticky wickets of human frailty â�� and you get the ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)

Toronto Star (Peter Howell)

This realistic abortion drama by unsung Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, shocking viewers with its brutal honesty. Set in 1987 before the fall of communism, and titled for the exact length of a pregnancy ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)

Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)

Writer/director Cristian Mungiu, whose film has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes as well as the European Film Award and several international critics prizes but shamefully did not make the short list of Foreign Language Films chosen by the Academy, has ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)

BBC (Laura Bushell)

Playing out in what seems like real time, both Mungiu's drama and cinematography by Oleg Mutu are utterly committed to portraying the reality of the situation. Taking Otilia's point of view, the mobile camerawork and static shots combine with great ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at BBC (Laura Bushell)

Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)

Formally precise, thematically incisive, and altogether unnerving, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a bravura piece. With this tense dramatization of the events surrounding an illegal Romanian abortion (circa 1987), director Cristian Mungiu shows how the ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)

Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)

The festival and arthouse crowd might be excused for declaring a Romanian New Wave on the basis of what amounts to just three films in as many years, for those three films are all pretty amazing: Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, winner of the ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)

San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)

First, this movie should be enjoyed. Later, marveled at. And then, once the excitement has faded, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" really should be studied, because director Cristian Mungiu creates scenes unlike any ever filmed. Moreover, he builds and ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)

Decent Films (Steven D. Greydanus)

In a key scene of Romanian writerâ��director Cristian Mungiuâ��s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Gabita Dragut (Laura Vasiliu) and her college roommate and friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) agree never again to discuss the horrific events of that day. To ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Decent Films (Steven D. Greydanus)

Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)

There's a terrifying immediacy to Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"; we're ushered, with documentarylike realism, into rooms where we shouldn't be present, witnessing events we shouldn't see. The camera, handheld and ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)

Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)

A gloomy sense of impending, implacable doom hangs over "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," an abortion drama set in the authoritarian Romania of 1987 that won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The film opens with opaque small talk in ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)

Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)

"You know what we're going to do? We're never going to talk about this, okay?" These words, spoken at the end of the abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, establish that everything we have been privileged to witness will be suppressed. It's a true ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)

Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

The Romanian New Wave continues with the third extraordinary film from that country in just over a year, following The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and 12:08 East of Bucharest. This film also has the particular distinction of winning the 2007 Palme d'Or at the ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is an abortion movie with a different perspective from the traditional melodrama or documentary. This production neither moralizes nor takes a side in the pro-life/pro-choice debate. In fact, this isn't about the issue at all ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

New York Post (V.A. Musetto)

UNEXPECTED preg nancy provides the backdrop for several recent movies. In the two best known, "Juno" and "Knocked Up," the topic is sugarcoated in typical Hollywood fashion. Not so with "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" by Romanian director Cristian ...read the complete 4 Months movie review at New York Post (V.A. Musetto)

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