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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceRen JenderVillage VoiceRen JenderWalk With Me (save for a few patronizing shots of nuns and monks with toys or in an amusement park) becomes a moving examination of mortality and life choices.
- 60Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganWalk With Me is a slip of a film, at turns worthy and profound, yet also soporific and uneventful, an occupational hazard of spending three years embedded in a Zen community, no doubt.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenHeartfelt, if not entirely satisfying, Walk With Me provides an up-close glimpse of the life of devotion, focusing on the monks and nuns who live at a rural monastery led by Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe film has some startling moments.
- The result is poetic but unfocused.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSometimes dreamy but mostly dissatisfying, “Walk With Me” offers no clarity for the curious. We can enjoy the meditative mood, but understanding its underpinnings would require more than this idyll of silence and stillness provides.