Metacritic reviews

With Solomon & Gaenor, it is hard to overlook the folly of the characters. Does it count as a tragedy when the characters get more or less what they were asking for?

Nicely filmed and acted.

A graceful, understated sense of period allows the behavior of the characters in this love story to be unusually nuanced, making their experiences seem uncontrived as well as archetypal.

It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.

Bogs down in a deep muck of inevitability.

Has a melodramatic glow.

The performances are uniformly excellent.

The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch.

First-time writer-director Paul Morrison has a gift for evoking a time and place.

By the time the heavy-handed Solomon & Gaenor is over, it has become such a punishing exercise in the self-evident that one is left numb and eager for escape.