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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyVarietyNever Let Me Go is that rare find, a fragile little four-leaf clover of a movie that's emotionally devastating, yet all too easily trampled by cynics.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThe surface blandness does not efface, and might even amplify, its disturbing qualities. Never Let Me Go is not a movie about death but, more painfully, about the consciousness of death.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night.
- 65MovielineMovielineKnightley has the least screen time of the three, and her Ruth never registers as much more than a self-serving menace.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberExpertly acted, impeccably photographed, intelligently written, even intermittently touching, the film is also too parched and ponderous to connect with a large audience.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyIt's a very tony fantasy of class oppression and fascist medical exploitation (themes that may speak louder in England), but it's a lyrically inert movie.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisAlas, what's missing is the spark of life, the jolt of the unexpected - something beyond tears - to puncture the falseness of a film world, which, by its insistence on its own beauty, obscures the tragedy that the three characters, by their nature, cannot express.
- 50USA TodayScott BowlesUSA TodayScott BowlesJust as its characters need a reason to live, Go needs a reason for audiences to watch. Neither find much satisfaction.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe stylistic conceit of keeping us entirely with the clones (so that we are as ill-informed as they are and never get to meet their powerful oppressors) only reveals what an empty-headed abstraction this tale was from both page and frame one