It's so vital and elastic that it offers up more secrets and epiphanies every time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2021

Denis is one of cinema's greatest narrative poets, and The Intruder, the story of an adventurer, is her most adventurous cinematic poem.

| Nov 19, 2013

While it may take a few viewings to sort the details out, much about L'Intrus lingers, shimmering quietly in the memory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2006

This is self-consciously intricate, but even if the storyline occasionally confuses, it's impossible not to admire Agnès Godard's glorious photography and the atmospheric soundtrack.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

An interior epic with epic exteriors, a film with very little dialogue, where the pictures (photographed by the great Agnès Godard), actors and the juxtaposition of both tell the story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2006

Never has Denis demanded so much from audiences as with this shimmering enigma, at once intimate and epic, but it's worth the effort and then some.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 16, 2006

A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.

| Mar 16, 2006

Denis composes a majestic dream book of shots and sequences.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 3, 2006

[S]hould you see The Intruder? Yes -- but only if you're willing to ignore bothersome concerns about narrative and let the poetic images take over your mind.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

Characteristically impressionistic, French director Claire Denis' latest meditation is simultaneously baffling and beautiful, and definitely not for everyone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2005

The Intruder ... is exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from immediately.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2005

Claire Denis's magnificent enigma of a film explores the troubled soul of a brooding loner who travels halfway around the world to begin a new life.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2005

This mysterious object may be Denis's most gorgeous film (which is saying something), but more than that, it's a fearless filmmaker's boldest experiment yet, a direct line from her unconscious to yours.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2005

Invisible emotional and psychological tendons are the ties that keep the film from completely dispersing into non-sequential incoherence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2005