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Jackson Holiday Wheeler
rated 10

Truly magical in so many ways. Astounding cinematography, script, and acting. Highly recommended!

1 year ago
Critic Leah Greenblatt
rated 7

...a glossy cinematic knickknack steeped in the heady unreality of a fable, or a dream.

Read full review at Entertainment Weekly
Critic Xan Brooks
rated 6

...is guileless, open-hearted, like an antiquarian bookseller’s dream of The Thief of Baghdad. It’s so defiantly out of step with fashion that there’s finally something faintly glorious about it.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Jordan Farley
rated 6

In many ways Three Thousand Years... is everything Fury Road isn’t. Namely: incessantly talky and almost completely devoid of action.

Read full review at Gamesradar
Critic Derek Smith
rated 8

George Miller’s film is a passionate exploration of how image-making is inextricable from storytelling.

Read full review at Slant Magazine
Critic Jesse Hassenger
rated 7

...in its loopy, beguiling, occasionally befuddling way, Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like it’s trying—and sometimes failing—to sum something up about Miller’s own history of loving strange movie magic.

Read full review at Paste Magazine
Critic Beth Webb
rated 8

It’s a film that wears its heart on its sleeve; a love letter to storytelling, itself based on a short story by the Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt.

Read full review at Empire
Critic David Ehrlich
rated 8

Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba conjure all sorts of magical chemistry in George Miller's bombastic modern fairy tale.

Read full review at Indie Wire

Cast & Crew

George Miller
Director
Tilda Swinton
As Alithea
Idris Elba
As The Djinn
Lachy Hulme
As Sultan Suleiman
Melissa Jaffer
As Clementine
Vincent Gil
As Old Merchant

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In this fantasy drama, a learned scholar encounter a magical being who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. With years of studying myths and legends, she knows too well the dangers of wishing and is hesitant to make her desires known. However, the being's fascinating tales from his past slowly win her over, leading her to make a surprising request that neither of them could have anticipated. As their conversation unfolds in a hotel room in Istanbul, they both discover something more profound than they could have imagined.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Three Thousand Years of Longing include All of Us Strangers, The Tearsmith, The Greatest Hits, The Shape of Water, With A Kiss I Die, Undine.

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Three Thousand Years of Longing was released in theaters on August 31, 2022.

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Three Thousand Years of Longing was released for streaming on September 14, 2022.