S.W.’s Scores
Continuity
+4
Entertainment
+3
Rewatchability
+1
CastJessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Noah Jupe
S.W.’s Verdict
Zhao films grief like weather — it just arrives and sits on everything. Buckley and Mescal are devastating, and the film earns every quiet moment by refusing to sentimentalize a dead child. Structurally precise. The problem is that it does its job so thoroughly you never want to feel it again.