Metacritic Movie Ratings
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 100

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  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  It's a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.

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• 100

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  Variety

  Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc.

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• 100

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  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.

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• 100

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007.

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• 100

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  This is a powerful film and a stark visual accomplishment, but no thanks to Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). The driving character is her roommate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), who does all the heavy lifting.

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• 88

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Depressing and gut-wrenching, but always powerful and gripping.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett

  The film is dark, gloomy and without music, but it is also observant and highly suspenseful, with Mungiu using his often static camera to balance banal cruelty with simple generosity.

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