4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is highly charming, funny and affecting, with a real sense of community and a super soundtrack..."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Cluzot, with his uncanny resemblance to Dustin Hoffman, is an engaging actor who effortlessly summons up inner neurosis. The others are all skilled at light wit and banter..."Chicago Sun-Times32.28273
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4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is highly charming, funny and affecting, with a real sense of community and a super soundtrack..."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Cluzot, with his uncanny resemblance to Dustin Hoffman, is an engaging actor who effortlessly summons up inner neurosis. The others are all skilled at light wit and banter..."Chicago Sun-Times32.28273
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"...[Huppert] gives a triumphant performance in a story of injustice that's hard to take and harder to forget..." Rolling Stone "...Icily haunting, beautifully delineated....A keen eye for matter-of-fact horror..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1989" ListNew York Times "...STORY OF WOMEN has a terrific sense of immediacy, an enormous vitality and a deep and broad perspective..."Los Angeles Times31.93469
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"...Galvanised by Isabelle Adjani's memorable turn..." Sight and Sound31.93469
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"...[ROUND MIDNIGHT] packs a terrific emotional punch..." Sight and Sound "...[Gordon] becomes the very embodiment of the music itself....Masterly..." New York Times "...Watching Dale and Francis grow close is a subdued experience that evolves in quiet ways..."Los Angeles Times "...This is the world of jazz from the very inside....'ROUND MIDNIGHT is the first film about jazzmen to be made in their own rhythms; it's a ballad, with repeated themes, long sustained passages and a perfect, delicate gravity about it..."Los Angeles Times "...This Oscar-winning ode to the power of jazz gets at the root of the great American art form..." Entertainment Weekly31.93469
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4 stars out of 5 -- "As Klapisch wanders through vignettes of dreams and disappointments, he offers a captivating and never prescriptive paean to humanity's will to survive."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "A Gallic SHORT CUTS, you could say -- although, being French, PARIS comes across quieter and more reflective than Altman's masterwork."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This vibrant portrait of the film's titular city will be irresistible to Francophiles....Binoche brings her natural charm to her compassionate character."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[E]very character has life and depth....As the narrative circles through their stories, we're genuinely curious about what will happen next."Chicago Sun-Times "As befits a film about a dancer staring down death, PARIS roots its best moments in movement rather than dialogue."A.V. Club "Both a Parisian answer to Woody Allen's MANHATTAN and a multicharacter mosaic in the mode of Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS, the movie sprawls invitingly across the screen like a glowing Impressionist painting."New York Times "[W]hat lifts PARIS from the subgenre pack is a fine ensemble, in particular the emotional chemistry between two of the screen's most magnetic actors, Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris."Los Angeles Times PARIS pulses with a contemporary version of the energy that animated Balzacs novels, or Colettes accounts of the life she observed from the window of her apartment in the Palais Royal.Wall Street Journal "Cedric Klapisch's intoxicating portrait of a city that despite (or, more likely, because of) being in a state of constant flux, retains timeless energy and allure."Washington Post Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Best Foreign Films Of 2009" -- "Cedric Klapisch, the writer-director, creates symphonic tribute to the city he loves..."Chicago Sun-Times31.93469
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4 stars out of 5 -- "As Klapisch wanders through vignettes of dreams and disappointments, he offers a captivating and never prescriptive paean to humanity's will to survive."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "A Gallic SHORT CUTS, you could say -- although, being French, PARIS comes across quieter and more reflective than Altman's masterwork."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "This vibrant portrait of the film's titular city will be irresistible to Francophiles....Binoche brings her natural charm to her compassionate character."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[E]very character has life and depth....As the narrative circles through their stories, we're genuinely curious about what will happen next."Chicago Sun-Times "As befits a film about a dancer staring down death, PARIS roots its best moments in movement rather than dialogue."A.V. Club "Both a Parisian answer to Woody Allen's MANHATTAN and a multicharacter mosaic in the mode of Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS, the movie sprawls invitingly across the screen like a glowing Impressionist painting."New York Times "[W]hat lifts PARIS from the subgenre pack is a fine ensemble, in particular the emotional chemistry between two of the screen's most magnetic actors, Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris."Los Angeles Times PARIS pulses with a contemporary version of the energy that animated Balzacs novels, or Colettes accounts of the life she observed from the window of her apartment in the Palais Royal.Wall Street Journal "Cedric Klapisch's intoxicating portrait of a city that despite (or, more likely, because of) being in a state of constant flux, retains timeless energy and allure."Washington Post Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Best Foreign Films Of 2009" -- "Cedric Klapisch, the writer-director, creates symphonic tribute to the city he loves..."Chicago Sun-Times31.93469
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"[T]he film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be....[It's] also a perfect star vehicle for Omar Sy, the French comedian, comic writer and television personality who makes Driss an unstoppable life force."Wall Street Journal "[A] sentimental feel-good saga....Cluzet and Sy locate the emotional truth in their characters' friendship."Los Angeles Times "THE INTOUCHABLES is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy..."USA Today "Sy and Cluzet are superb actors who demolish stereotypes about race and social class by finding a common humanity in their characters."Rolling Stone "The appeal of a film like this, and it is perfectly legitimate, is that when we begin to feel affection for the characters, what makes them happy make us happy."Chicago Sun-Times "THE INTOUCHABLES hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called THE IRRESISTIBLES."Movieline "Sy does indeed have spunk, life force and physical charisma. And Cluzet communicates Philippe's frustrations with subtlety."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eel good movies like this are pretty hard to come by and the laughs are the mortar that seals the bricks."Box Office31.93469
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"[T]he film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be....[It's] also a perfect star vehicle for Omar Sy, the French comedian, comic writer and television personality who makes Driss an unstoppable life force."Wall Street Journal "[A] sentimental feel-good saga....Cluzet and Sy locate the emotional truth in their characters' friendship."Los Angeles Times "THE INTOUCHABLES is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy..."USA Today "Sy and Cluzet are superb actors who demolish stereotypes about race and social class by finding a common humanity in their characters."Rolling Stone "The appeal of a film like this, and it is perfectly legitimate, is that when we begin to feel affection for the characters, what makes them happy make us happy."Chicago Sun-Times "THE INTOUCHABLES hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called THE IRRESISTIBLES."Movieline "Sy does indeed have spunk, life force and physical charisma. And Cluzet communicates Philippe's frustrations with subtlety."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eel good movies like this are pretty hard to come by and the laughs are the mortar that seals the bricks."Box Office31.93469
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"[T]he film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be....[It's] also a perfect star vehicle for Omar Sy, the French comedian, comic writer and television personality who makes Driss an unstoppable life force."Wall Street Journal "[A] sentimental feel-good saga....Cluzet and Sy locate the emotional truth in their characters' friendship."Los Angeles Times "THE INTOUCHABLES is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy..."USA Today "Sy and Cluzet are superb actors who demolish stereotypes about race and social class by finding a common humanity in their characters."Rolling Stone "The appeal of a film like this, and it is perfectly legitimate, is that when we begin to feel affection for the characters, what makes them happy make us happy."Chicago Sun-Times "THE INTOUCHABLES hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called THE IRRESISTIBLES."Movieline "Sy does indeed have spunk, life force and physical charisma. And Cluzet communicates Philippe's frustrations with subtlety."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eel good movies like this are pretty hard to come by and the laughs are the mortar that seals the bricks."Box Office31.93469
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"[T]he film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be....[It's] also a perfect star vehicle for Omar Sy, the French comedian, comic writer and television personality who makes Driss an unstoppable life force."Wall Street Journal "[A] sentimental feel-good saga....Cluzet and Sy locate the emotional truth in their characters' friendship."Los Angeles Times "THE INTOUCHABLES is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy..."USA Today "Sy and Cluzet are superb actors who demolish stereotypes about race and social class by finding a common humanity in their characters."Rolling Stone "The appeal of a film like this, and it is perfectly legitimate, is that when we begin to feel affection for the characters, what makes them happy make us happy."Chicago Sun-Times "THE INTOUCHABLES hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called THE IRRESISTIBLES."Movieline "Sy does indeed have spunk, life force and physical charisma. And Cluzet communicates Philippe's frustrations with subtlety."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eel good movies like this are pretty hard to come by and the laughs are the mortar that seals the bricks."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's pepped up by a loveable lead performance and a real lightness of touch."Total Film31.93469
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"[T]he film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be....[It's] also a perfect star vehicle for Omar Sy, the French comedian, comic writer and television personality who makes Driss an unstoppable life force."Wall Street Journal "[A] sentimental feel-good saga....Cluzet and Sy locate the emotional truth in their characters' friendship."Los Angeles Times "THE INTOUCHABLES is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy..."USA Today "Sy and Cluzet are superb actors who demolish stereotypes about race and social class by finding a common humanity in their characters."Rolling Stone "The appeal of a film like this, and it is perfectly legitimate, is that when we begin to feel affection for the characters, what makes them happy make us happy."Chicago Sun-Times "THE INTOUCHABLES hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called THE IRRESISTIBLES."Movieline "Sy does indeed have spunk, life force and physical charisma. And Cluzet communicates Philippe's frustrations with subtlety."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eel good movies like this are pretty hard to come by and the laughs are the mortar that seals the bricks."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's pepped up by a loveable lead performance and a real lightness of touch."Total Film31.93469
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"[T]he film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be....[It's] also a perfect star vehicle for Omar Sy, the French comedian, comic writer and television personality who makes Driss an unstoppable life force."Wall Street Journal "[A] sentimental feel-good saga....Cluzet and Sy locate the emotional truth in their characters' friendship."Los Angeles Times "THE INTOUCHABLES is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy..."USA Today "Sy and Cluzet are superb actors who demolish stereotypes about race and social class by finding a common humanity in their characters."Rolling Stone "The appeal of a film like this, and it is perfectly legitimate, is that when we begin to feel affection for the characters, what makes them happy make us happy."Chicago Sun-Times "THE INTOUCHABLES hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called THE IRRESISTIBLES."Movieline "Sy does indeed have spunk, life force and physical charisma. And Cluzet communicates Philippe's frustrations with subtlety."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eel good movies like this are pretty hard to come by and the laughs are the mortar that seals the bricks."Box Office31.93469
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Chopping back and forth in time, it's dynamically shot....Canet has rounded up a real 'Who's Who' of French acting talent..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his sees Guillaume Canet going for broke, piling twist upon twist....It's bursting with ideas..."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "At the heart of Guillaume Canet's film -- in every sense -- is Francois Cluzet's award-winning performance..."Empire "Based on a Harlan Coben novel, this top-notch thriller from France is so twisty you may forget to breathe....It's as much a despairing love story as an edge-of-your-seat affair."Los Angeles Times "TELL NO ONE is about an innocent man on the run with nowhere to turn....[Mr. Cluzet] is a convincing Everyman with a heat and soul stretched to the breaking point."New York Times "It's THE BIG SLEEP meets VERTIGO with a dash of CSI....TELL NO ONE's plot thickens in about five ways at once, but they're all connected." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "TELL NO ONE is engaging in a tension-mounting, tightly wound kind of way....The cast here is uniformly superb, especially Kristin Scott Thomas..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "[A]s artfully dense as THE BIG SLEEP, as painfully romantic as VERTIGO..."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It contains a rich population of characters, but has been so carefully cast that we're never confused....One of the film's pleasures is its unexpected details..."Chicago Sun-Times0.3520266
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"[B]rought off charmingly....The musical numbers themselves are beautifully animated and sung."Sight and Sound0.2900323
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Chopping back and forth in time, it's dynamically shot....Canet has rounded up a real 'Who's Who' of French acting talent..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his sees Guillaume Canet going for broke, piling twist upon twist....It's bursting with ideas..."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "At the heart of Guillaume Canet's film -- in every sense -- is Francois Cluzet's award-winning performance..."Empire "Based on a Harlan Coben novel, this top-notch thriller from France is so twisty you may forget to breathe....It's as much a despairing love story as an edge-of-your-seat affair."Los Angeles Times "TELL NO ONE is about an innocent man on the run with nowhere to turn....[Mr. Cluzet] is a convincing Everyman with a heat and soul stretched to the breaking point."New York Times "It's THE BIG SLEEP meets VERTIGO with a dash of CSI....TELL NO ONE's plot thickens in about five ways at once, but they're all connected." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "TELL NO ONE is engaging in a tension-mounting, tightly wound kind of way....The cast here is uniformly superb, especially Kristin Scott Thomas..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "[A]s artfully dense as THE BIG SLEEP, as painfully romantic as VERTIGO..."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It contains a rich population of characters, but has been so carefully cast that we're never confused....One of the film's pleasures is its unexpected details..."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] brilliant thriller....Everything we think we know from a series of flashbacks, dissolves in doubt or explodes into chases."Wall Street Journal0.2816212
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Chopping back and forth in time, it's dynamically shot....Canet has rounded up a real 'Who's Who' of French acting talent..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his sees Guillaume Canet going for broke, piling twist upon twist....It's bursting with ideas..."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "At the heart of Guillaume Canet's film -- in every sense -- is Francois Cluzet's award-winning performance..."Empire "Based on a Harlan Coben novel, this top-notch thriller from France is so twisty you may forget to breathe....It's as much a despairing love story as an edge-of-your-seat affair."Los Angeles Times "TELL NO ONE is about an innocent man on the run with nowhere to turn....[Mr. Cluzet] is a convincing Everyman with a heat and soul stretched to the breaking point."New York Times "It's THE BIG SLEEP meets VERTIGO with a dash of CSI....TELL NO ONE's plot thickens in about five ways at once, but they're all connected." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "TELL NO ONE is engaging in a tension-mounting, tightly wound kind of way....The cast here is uniformly superb, especially Kristin Scott Thomas..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "[A]s artfully dense as THE BIG SLEEP, as painfully romantic as VERTIGO..."Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It contains a rich population of characters, but has been so carefully cast that we're never confused....One of the film's pleasures is its unexpected details..."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] brilliant thriller....Everything we think we know from a series of flashbacks, dissolves in doubt or explodes into chases."Wall Street Journal0.2816212
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"...A singular adventure..." Entertainment Weekly "...One of the most visionary and satisfying DVD sets yet issued....This set delivers a full week of steady and deepening pleasures that enrich one's appreciation of the films' personal, social and historical motivations..." Sight and Sound15.22981
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"...Lushly romantic..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...Grand in ambition, complex in design, Francois Girard's THE RED VIOLIN dares to deal with large and enduring themes....RED VIOLIN glows with passion..."Los Angeles Times "...THE RED VIOLIN has the kind of sweep and vision that we identify with elegant features from decades ago....The film is easy to follow, and yet reveals its secrets slyly..." Chicago Sun-Times9.201066
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"...Lushly romantic..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...Grand in ambition, complex in design, Francois Girard's THE RED VIOLIN dares to deal with large and enduring themes....RED VIOLIN glows with passion..."Los Angeles Times "...THE RED VIOLIN has the kind of sweep and vision that we identify with elegant features from decades ago....The film is easy to follow, and yet reveals its secrets slyly..." Chicago Sun-Times9.201065
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"...8 WOMEN enjoins eight of France's finest actresses in a giddily amusing Agatha Christie-style whodunit....Fun..." Box Office "...Cineasts and worshippers of les femmes at their most fatales will find this farce wonderfully fierce..." Premiere "...Both camp and true, a warped adoration of star-quality actresses as amazing creatures who can project the lives of fictional characters as well as the essence of their own fabulous selves..." Entertainment Weekly "...All eight women are something to see and marvel at. Whatever you call this one-of-a-kind bonbon spiked with wit and malice, it's classic oo-la-la" Rolling Stone "...8 WOMEN is a feast. Each performance is beautifully controlled, notably Huppert's devastating comic turn..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "The result manages to keep you entertained -- and guessing -- until the end."Empire9.125703
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"...8 WOMEN enjoins eight of France's finest actresses in a giddily amusing Agatha Christie-style whodunit....Fun..." Box Office "...Cineasts and worshippers of les femmes at their most fatales will find this farce wonderfully fierce..." Premiere "...Both camp and true, a warped adoration of star-quality actresses as amazing creatures who can project the lives of fictional characters as well as the essence of their own fabulous selves..." Entertainment Weekly "...All eight women are something to see and marvel at. Whatever you call this one-of-a-kind bonbon spiked with wit and malice, it's classic oo-la-la" Rolling Stone "...8 WOMEN is a feast. Each performance is beautifully controlled, notably Huppert's devastating comic turn..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "The result manages to keep you entertained -- and guessing -- until the end."Empire9.125703
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"...It's worth seeing twice just for the privilege of watching Rampling and Sagnier match each other stroke for stroke..." Premiere "...The narrative logic of SWIMMING POOL slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps..." Entertainment Weekly "...It's Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance..."Rolling Stone "...As the story takes shape, Mr. Ozon, Ms. Rampling and Ms. Sagnier complicate it in subtle and fascinating ways....Simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism..." New York Times "With a little sex, some mystery, an appealing lead and a little sex, France's SWIMMING POOL has what it takes to become an art house audience magnet..." USA Today "...Rampling doesn't skip a beat. Freed from the burden of likability, the actress pushes the character from near-farce to near-tragedy without once appealing to sentimentalism..."Los Angeles Times "...A sensuous and deceptive new thriller..." Chicago Sun-Times "...An entertaining drama, showcasing strong performances from both actresses..." Box Office "...The film is ripe with allusions....The ambiguities intensify the picture's hothouse atmosphere, making it all the more impressive that Ozon maintains such a consistently cool touch..." Sight and Sound9.125703
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"...It's worth seeing twice just for the privilege of watching Rampling and Sagnier match each other stroke for stroke..." Premiere "...The narrative logic of SWIMMING POOL slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps..." Entertainment Weekly "...It's Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance..."Rolling Stone "...As the story takes shape, Mr. Ozon, Ms. Rampling and Ms. Sagnier complicate it in subtle and fascinating ways....Simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism..." New York Times "With a little sex, some mystery, an appealing lead and a little sex, France's SWIMMING POOL has what it takes to become an art house audience magnet..." USA Today "...Rampling doesn't skip a beat. Freed from the burden of likability, the actress pushes the character from near-farce to near-tragedy without once appealing to sentimentalism..."Los Angeles Times "...A sensuous and deceptive new thriller..." Chicago Sun-Times "...An entertaining drama, showcasing strong performances from both actresses..." Box Office "...The film is ripe with allusions....The ambiguities intensify the picture's hothouse atmosphere, making it all the more impressive that Ozon maintains such a consistently cool touch..." Sight and Sound9.125703
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