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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangRichard Gere goes slumming in the streets of Manhattan and emerges with one of his more remarkable performances in Time Out of Mind, a haunting piece of urban poetry that further confirms Oren Moverman as a socially conscious filmmaker of rare conviction and authority.
- 90Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlTime Out of Mind is an experiment in empathy, an examination of bureaucracy and streetlife mundanity, and a movie that many will find a tough sit.
- 88RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzTime out of Mind seems to have been undertaken for no other reason than that the filmmakers and actors believed in the truth of the material. How many American movies can you say that about?
- 83The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthTime Out Of Mind is a film of tremendous patience and pace, as it wants you to inhabit every minute, day, hour and year of homelessness. But it's through that considered approach that the reveal of George's deep self-hatred and low self-esteem carries an extraordinary power; time has worn his sense of self to the point of despair that's deeply moving.
- 80CineVueBen NicholsonCineVueBen NicholsonGere does a fantastic job of embodying this broken man... It's an incredibly moving performance that lends Time Out of Mind emotional weight and anchors this contemplation of a man adrift in a world that doesn't appear to care.
- 63Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSlant MagazineElise NakhnikianThe film isn't preachy, but its indie-movie artiness sometimes get in the way of its noble mission, making us think more about the techniques being used than the effects they're meant to create.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyWith Gere’s character so lacking in memory and mental clarity, the film provides very little for an audience to latch on to. Tedium quickly sets in and is only sporadically relieved in this labor of love that simply doesn’t reward even the patient attention of sympathetic viewers.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickPerhaps this year’s timeliest film — as well as, unfortunately, one of the hardest to sit through.