Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Marling's acoustic-guitar work is more impressive than ever: See 'Easy,' a fingerpicked folk reverie suggesting a stoned Joshua Tree journey." Spin - "[T]he sound of SHORT MOVIE is as fortified as Marling's voice and lyrics. 'Warrior' and 'Worship' are mostly built around the rapid-fire acoustic picking that Marling has long been synonymous with, though now it comes amidst productions as dense with reverb and strings as a Mazzy Star album..." NME (Magazine) - "[I]t plays out like a series of vignettes, of moods and moments, people and places -- but there is a sense of a journey completed, with a hard-won wisdom at the end of it." Paste (magazine) - "Marling plugs in an electric guitar (her father's old Gibson ES 335) for the first time on any of her recorded works. As a result, Short Movie is brash, choppy and more expansive than any of her previous works." Pitchfork (Website) - "[O]n SHORT MOVIE, she clutches every guitar fill like it's a long-lost piece of her identity, luxuriating in space and writing bigger and hazier songs to match." Clash (Magazine) - "Opener `Warrior' slowly emerges out of a reverb-heavy soundscape, the unsettling swirl ever-present throughout."

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