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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisErik Molberg Hansen’s relaxed camera movements and fuzzy-soft compositions are quite beautiful, and the performances — including the superb Trine Dyrholm as the baby’s Danish foster mother — are pitch-perfect. Best of all is the magnetic August, whose open, mobile features can slide from plain to lovely with just a shift in the light and whose embrace of the character is a joy to watch.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThroughout Becoming Astrid, August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive.
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThis film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.
- 75Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanThis familiar-sounding melodrama works because of the extraordinary performance, in the title role, by Alba August, a young actress whose every emotion is made manifest, like passing clouds or a burst of sunshine, on her uncannily expressive face.
- 70Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghArizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghThis is not a flat and lifeless biopic in which a creation loses a bit of its wonder in the dissection of its inspiration. “Becoming Astrid” sidesteps that pitfall by focusing on the writer’s painful passage into womanhood, telling an intimate and unhurried story of quiet triumph over pain.
- 60Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe film’s occasional flatness of tone isn’t always well-used — these may be the raw materials for a classic Hollywood weepie, but sometimes you want to see filmmaking, not a camera pointed in the general direction of who’s talking.
- 50Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownDespite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.
- 50Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleBecoming Astrid’s saving grace is Alba August. She is in almost every frame of this film, and gives life to what, on paper, amounts to a Lifetime channel biopic.