[1] "Movement" was first written on the piano,[2] and is a gospel-pop and R&B ballad with "intense emotionality", "twinkling' keys and organs, and slow-build, stomp-clap to the track.

Billboard praised the track, saying "the emotional song touches on the beauty of movement, as Hozier sings about watching the subject dancing freely.

"[7] while NPR stated that ""Movement," leans hard into Hozier's gifts for crafting songs that radiate waves of soaring intensity [...] and drama build[s] quietly.

"[8] Pitchfork dismissed it, writing that the "murk of the song mostly invites you to avert eye contact from the back of the room"[4] while The Independent likened it to a "church march to which the bride enters a disappointing wedding night.

The video was directed by British filmmakers Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor and featured dancer Sergei Polunin, paying tribute to the "emotional physicality of dance" alongside the lyrics.