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Name: Past Lives
Director: Celine Song
Genre: drama, romance
Released: 2023
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 7.8

Past Lives has an iRankMovies score of 85.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Past Lives (2023)

Release:2023

Runtime:1h 46m

Country:United States

Director:Celine Song

Language:English

Genre

DramaRomance

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Keywords

New York CityImmigrantfriendshipNostalgiaWoman Between Two MenInterracial MarriageFatePlaywright

iRank86

Past Lives rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.8/10· 172K votes

Rotten Tomatoes95%

Metacritic94%

TMDb7.7/10· 2K votes

With 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 94/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Past Lives

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Cast of Past Lives

Greta Lee
as Nora
Teo Yoo
as Hae Sung
John Magaro
as Arthur
Moon Seung-ah
as Young Nora
Leem Seung-min
as Young Hae Sung
Yoon Ji-hye
as Nora's Mom
Choi Won-young
as Nora's Dad
An Min-young
as Hae Sung's Mom
Seo Yeon-woo
as Young Si Young
Chang Ki-ha
as Hae Sung's Friend 1
Shin Hee-cheol
as Hae Sung's Friend 2
Park Jun-hyuk
as Hae Sung's Friend 3

Past Lives facts

Budget: $12M
Box office: $28.1M

Our take on Past Lives

Celine Song's 2023 debut reunites two childhood friends decades later for one bittersweet weekend in New York, as they weigh the lives they lived against the one they might have shared. Quiet, aching and exquisitely restrained, it's a modern romance about fate and what-ifs. If its tender melancholy moved you, seek out understated romantic dramas about longing, distance and the people who shaped us.

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources