This isn’t just an anti-superhero superhero film, but something akin to an anti-film.
Quentin Dupieux imbues a trite genre scenario with a Kafkaesque brand of comic existentialism.
At first, the film’s dark humor is amusing, only for it to wear off once an actual plot kicks into motion.
Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty.
A smart comedy about the bourgeoisie’s discomfort with anything that it can’t recognize as itself.
Romantics Anonymous is a typically anodyne rom-com given a certain poignant piquancy by the paralyzing shyness of its romantic leads.
This wan road comedy can be jettisoned for the inevitable John Travolta remake.
The drab stateliness of Coco Before Chanel is in keeping with the un-ornate threads popularized by its subject.
Anarchic craziness makes the revolutionary message go down smoothly in Louise-Michel.