April 2019. It was later given a Blu-Ray/DVD release in North American retailers. Reception Critical response On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, of critics have given the film a positive review based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads, "High Life is as visually arresting as it is challenging, confounding, and ultimately rewarding – which is to say it's everything film fans expect from director Claire Denis." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 77 out of 100 based on reviews from 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film an A− grade, saying it owed more to Solaris than Star Wars and describing it as "a pensive and profound study of human life on the brink of the apocalypse." Jessica Kiang of Variety called it "extraordinary, difficult, hypnotic, and repulsive". Charles Bramesco of the Guardian gave the film 5 stars out of 5, saying Denis had reconfigured the genre's "familiar components to create a startlingly fresh engagement with the question of what it means to be human." Steve MacFarlane of Slant Magazine wrote: "The film asks down-and-dirty questions about what really resides beneath thousands of years of human progress, a savage and haunting antidote to the high-minded idealism of movies like Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and Ridley Scott's The Martian." Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com described it as "tailor-made for viewers who like science fiction in a cryptic 1970s art-house mode." In France, Le Monde and Libération described High Life as a "masterpiece". Accolades Notes References External links 2018 films 2010s English-language films 2010s science fiction horror films A24 (company) films American science fiction horror films British science fiction horror films British drama films Films about rape Films directed by Claire Denis Films shot in Cologne Films set on spacecraft French drama films 2010s pregnancy films French science fiction horror films English-language French films German drama films English-language German films German science fiction horror films Mad scientist films Polish drama films English-language Polish films Polish science fiction films British pregnancy films French pregnancy films German pregnancy films 2010s American films 2010s British films 2010s French films 2010s German films