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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatAndrew StoverFilm ThreatAndrew StoverNo Future is unassuming, truthful, and absorbing by virtue of the deeply sensitive performances from Charlie Heaton, who exercises rigid body language and a weary demeanor, and Catherine Keener, whose sadness and shock are softly expressed.
- 75RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiThose willing to give No Future a chance will find it to be a fairly smart and realistic depiction of two people consumed by grief, guilt, and loss and the misguided ways by which they attempt to come to terms with those feelings.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe drama around them too often lands rather neatly on the surface, saying exactly what it means, but through the unpredictability of its two leads, Keener especially, and in the knotty connection between their characters, the movie gets under the skin and goes beyond the bromide-laden playbook.
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThis small-scale drama is sensitively rendered, examining two people who share a past that they’re only beginning to untangle, resulting in unhappy recriminations that offer little in the way of closure.
- 50The New York TimesCalum MarshThe New York TimesCalum MarshIn flattening everything into a single shade of funereal gray, “No Future” has none of the ineffable, multifaceted complexity of life.