Box office Look Back grossed million in the United States and million in other territories, for a worldwide total of million.
Critical response Look Back was universally acclaimed by critics. On the
review aggregator website
Rotten Tomatoes,
Look Back has a
100% critic rating based on 25 reviews and the average rating is 8.7 out of 10.
Metacritic, which uses a
weighted average, assigned the film a score of 90 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
IndieWires David Ehrlich gave the film a grade of "B+", praising the character design and the emotional weight of the story; Ehrlich wrote that, "the fleeting nature of Oshiyama's film, which so fluidly renders eons of labor with the lightness of memory and the brilliance of a shooting star, is what ultimately allows it to crystallize a truth that most artists can only hope to accept for themselves [...]: Making things isn't a waste of time or a way of isolating oneself from the world, but rather the most beautiful way of belonging to it." Robbie Collin of
The Telegraph gave the film a score of five out of five stars, praising its visuals as "wildly yet unassumingly beautiful" and its plot as accessible "yet philosophically rich"; he concluded: "There's a
haiku-like purity to it:
Look Back is as neat and yet also as overflowing as the four-panel strips in which its leads once diligently honed their craft. And if something so beautiful also feels too brief – well, that may be the idea."
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