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The Sky Is Everywhere

2022

Josephine Decker

Grace Kaufman, Pico Alexander, Jacques Colimon, Jason Segel ...

4.8

120

Romance. Drama After the death of Lennie's sister, Bailey, she finds herself torn between the seductive Toby - Bailey's boyfriend who shares her grief - and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs.

	Author	Review
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"It’s an immersive experience, so full that it even helps some of the film’s less refined elements go down easier."	POS
United States	Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"An affecting portrait of a young woman stumbling toward self-discovery (...) Kaufman capably embodies Lennie’s journey"	POS
United States	Natalia Winkelman The New York Times	"[Decker is] an empath with a divine gift for using chaotic visuals to conjure emotion"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"'The Sky Is Everywhere' is a movie of inner vision, of fantasy and symbol, that coexists with the drama even when it doesn't quite coalesce with it"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"A film marked by an exhausting lack of restraint (...) While the sky may be everywhere, moving human emotion (...) are frustratingly difficult to locate."	NEG
United States	Steven Scaife Slant	"It explores Lennie and Toby’s fraught relationship with sensitivity and a lack of judgment (...) Decker ably juggles her imagery alongside the film’s more traditional dramatic core (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Lacy Baugher Paste Magazine	"Kaufman’s performance is the highlight of the film (...) Even during Lennie’s ugliest moments, Kaufman manages to keep the character sympathetic and relatable"	POS
United States	Marya E. Gates The Playlist	"The tropes of the genre are expertly manicured by Decker’s prowess for striking imagery until they glow with a sleek art house patina"	POS
United States	Leila Latif AV Club	"'The Sky Is Everywhere'—and so are the clichés (...) There are sweet moments between Lennie and Joe (...) At times, though, their relationship borders on puerile"	NEU
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"[The screenplay] skims the surface of human connections and emotion (...) [It feels] feel like a collection of notions for a story about grief that are never believable and never cohere."	NEG
United States	M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut	"'The Sky is Everywhere' is an operatic, endlessly creative, and breathtaking visual poem of grief (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"[It] deftly explores the confusing tangle of emotions in the aftermath of loss (...) An emotional arc that honors the beautiful strangeness of teenage feelings more than its inherent drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Hong Kong	James Marsh South China Morning Post	"This unashamedly naive and idealistic tale of love and loss is elevated beautifully by Josephine Decker’s dreamlike and overtly theatrical direction (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ciara Wardlow rogerebert.com	"The visual craftsmanship is stunning, and fans of director Josephine Decker's work in particular might find something to enjoy here, but as a story it quickly buckles under its own weight (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"The script rarely offers anything but trite platitudes on the messiness of suffering (...) The narrative feels at once exhausting and undercooked."	NEG
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"Director and cinematographer masterfully capture the light and shadows and sun and scenery in a manner that makes 'The Sky Is Everywhere' feel like a fantasy, which is ideal for the flights of fancy that the Lennie envisions"	POS
United States	Cassie Da Costa Vanity Fair	"Filmmaker Josephine Decker brings her wholly original theatrical style to the YA genre, with a film that will satisfy fans while drawing interest from casual viewers"	POS
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"It may make a viewer long for the tang of acid to temper all these rampant, raging youthful feelings, but the film, in all its unbridled sensitivity, does have a transportive effect"	POS
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"Within 'The Sky Is Everywhere' are two different movies fighting against each other that just can't quite mesh together into something that completely works. And yet, [it] is so full of imagination and inventiveness"	NEU
Canada	Sarah Bea Milner Screen Rant	"Soured by a complete lack of balance in the story structure, characterization, motivation, and pacing (...) It all comes across like the forced whimsy and manufactured twee. [It] is doesn't pay off (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG

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