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Metascore
10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodySilver’s incisive direction blends patient discernment and expressive angularity; he develops his characters in deft and rapid strokes and builds tension with an almost imperceptible heightening of tone and darkening of mood.
- 90Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe film is brisk, brief, well acted, smartly crafted, and shrewdly judged.
- 88Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenAppropriately, the images in the film, the most fluidly beautiful and resonant of Nathan Silver's career thus far, suggest flashes of memory relived from the vantage point of the future.
- 70VarietyGeoff BerkshireVarietyGeoff BerkshireSilver offers up a generally assured and compelling film here.
- 63RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comSilver’s latest film Uncertain Terms finds some substance within its ideology of evaporated ambitions, though there’s plenty of empty space in which the film is still able to limit itself.
- 60The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldWhile the movie creates an intriguing emotional space in which characters at the end of their ropes can open up, there’s the distinct sense of a missed opportunity.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweSuch a deliberate setup is by design intended to create emotional conflict, so it’s perhaps fortuitous that the plot doesn't become even more contrived than it starts off.
- 50Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAs it stands, "Terms" proves too uncertain.
- 40The DissolveCharles BramescoThe DissolveCharles BramescoSilver threatens to tease out some compelling emotional dimensions from Robbie and Nina, but stops just short of profundity. Uncertain Terms has no problem amounting to the sum total of its markedly basic component parts.