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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s a lyrical and rapturous film — a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking.
- 83The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakIts authentic depiction of unprepared young love is delicately innocent.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film’s imaginative daring springs from its willingness to render repression sexy, even if it will prove to be the seed of a young couple’s dissolution.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThis film of delicate emotional nuance recounts an enchanting but sad love story.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a tender and valuable film, well acted, with a shrewd eye for how naive you can be in your early 20s, how impatient, how pompous, how tragicomically un-self-aware.
- 60Total FilmJamie GrahamTotal FilmJamie GrahamA decent adaptation of McEwan’s excellent novella. Forget Fifty Shades – this is sex to make your cheeks blush.
- 60EmpireEmpireAn opulent, well crafted and acted tale of emotional repression that captures the head more than the heart.
- 58IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandOn Chesil Beach offers up so many tricky tonal changes, enough that Cooke eventually gives them over to a single note: limp.
- 50The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthOn Chesil Beach makes us consider the lives of the Florence and Edward as outside observers, but rarely takes us inside the complicated mix of desire and fear this pair is trying to untangle.