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Aloft
Directed by
Claudia Llosa
2014
1h 52m
R
Drama
5.3
16%
27%
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A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
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Cast of Aloft
Jennifer Connelly
Nana Kunning
Cillian Murphy
Ivan
Mélanie Laurent
Jannia Ressmore
William Shimell
Newman
Zen McGrath
Young Ivan
Peter McRobbie
Ike
Winta McGrath
Gully
Nancy Drake
Old Woman
Judy Cook
Airplane Receptionist
Carson Nattrass
Officer
Oona Chaplin
Alice
Aurore Pariente
Sophie
Aloft Reviews
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
The majority of the film strives for ethereal lyricism but the melodrama of these lives never proves strong enough to anchor any real emotional connection.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
A film for true believers: people who can accept - or at least wrestle with - the idea that God (or whatever) can ask you to do things that you and yours cannot understand, or give you a gift that's good only for other people.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Just when you're ready for "Aloft" to take wing, it ends.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Connelly, with her signature brand of serene toughness, does tragedy very well, but she doesn't really have a character to play here; just an endless series of tight close-ups and troubled expressions.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Some movies practically dare you to give up. "Aloft" is a beautifully shot, frustratingly vague and deeply ponderous mystery/spiritual journey about terminally unhappy souls.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The characters in "Aloft" seem to float over their strong passions, like birds riding on columns of air, without ever alighting.
TheWrap
Inkoo Kang
"Adrift" is a more fitting title for this unmoored and glacially paced star vehicle, which prizes exasperating inscrutability over effective storytelling.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
One problem with "Aloft" is that the audience is never made to care about Ivan. All we know is that he's repellent.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Aloft's characters exude a certain impregnability, and the story's structure only further distances us from them.
Boston Globe
Tom Russo
Llosa's film pushes its enigmatic and quietly brooding qualities to the point that it's inaccessible, despite some mildly intriguing spiritual story elements and skilled performances ...
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The story doesn't add up to much, but the stark natural imagery and frank discussions of spiritual longing leave strong impressions.
America Magazine
John Anderson
A spiritually elevated, visually thrilling movie.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Aloft is ultimately a movie about our need to keep moving and searching. And at times, it's quite a lovely one.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
For all its brooding atmosphere and visual poeticism, the film offers a perspective on the lives of its characters that feels narrow and superficial.
Los Angeles Times
Rebecca Keegan
"Aloft" sets up a compelling mystery - how could a loving mother abandon her son? - and then, frustratingly, refuses to solve it.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
The entire flashback structure is building toward one of those twist endings that the characters would already know, but that's being deliberately withheld from the audience in an attempt at suspense.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Like a car mirror warning that objects may be closer than they appear, director Claudia Llosa's chilly New Age drama gives off a deceptive sense of depth.
New York Daily News
Katherine Pushkar
Deep - deep! - in this impenetrable block of ice is an actual, OK story. But the patience it takes to get to it? The return on investment just isn't there.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
Llosa's film is a poem without rhythm or reason.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
Even those incapable of getting ahead of the film's big reveal ... will probably lose interest before all the cards are laid on the table. What's really been withheld, in this dreary drag of a movie, is a reason to care.
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