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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinIt’s an often tender, affecting film that slowly creeps up on you — then completely takes hold.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThis wistful, melancholy yet hopeful romance has a warmth that singes, a poetry to its stock situations and a biting allegory about the country where Western civilization began facing a world of troubles, not all of its own making.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt isn’t bad, but it’s kind of a trifle. Though it treats its themes with reasonable honesty, it can’t help but come off as a bit diagrammed.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWorlds Apart doesn’t manage to transcend the forced and familiar-feeling aspects of its multipart narrative, but it does offer an evocative portrait of its troubled milieu, and one of its segments, at least, has genuine emotional resonance.
- 50Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsNeophyte writer/director Christopher Papakaliatis eventually shows an affinity for filming two people in love, but his actors often lack the chemistry to make us believe that their bond transcends all socioeconomic boundaries.