Benoît Jacquot's À tout de suite, a concentrated, carefully understated look at teenage confusion, is the director's best film since Pas de scandale, and it provides a perfect illustration of "small" film virtues.

| Apr 11, 2018

Shot in wide-screen, low-grain black and white, this sleek suspense narrative quietly unpacks the delusions and emotional hunger of its upper-class heroine.

| Jan 26, 2010

Should deliver to that core of filmgoers who respond to anything French, edgy, well-reviewed and well-done.

| Mar 1, 2007

Stylish but pointless and bland romantic thriller.

| Original Score: C | Feb 28, 2007

Despite the film's infectious style and the powerful charisma of its leading performers, it doesn't really catch fire.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2006

A Tout de Suite contains a sufficient amount of action and suspense but it's also quite the literary picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2005

If you're not careful, A Tout De Suite--Benoit Jacquot's ode to the French New Wave, infused with his love of American crime classics 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Badlands'--will fool you.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2005

The film's retro appeal includes black-and-white cinematography and a Truffaut-esque fascination for parallels between the characters' wild flight and filmmaking itself as a wide-eyed, open-ended experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2005

Crazy things certainly happen to Lili, but Le Besco drifts through most of the proceedings as though she were following a checklist: long face (done), three-way with lithe Athenians (yup), the occasional suggestion of zombietude (mission accomplished).

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2005

... a painful and poignant film at once empathetic and critical, more soberly unnerving than exciting, but never less than compelling.

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2005

Opaque stares and pregnant pauses can only pull so much weight, no matter how snazzy the packaging.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2005

A Tout de Suite is a sometimes-interesting film, particularly its first 30 minutes, but runs on long after the intrigue ends...

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 12, 2005

Benoit Jacquot's drama creates a sense of dislocation with its impossible-to- predict-what-will- happen-next plot, jumpy black-and-white cinematography, elusive characters and casual approach to the time in which it's set.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2005

Thoroughly assured as a piece of art, and bears rewards worth enduring stretches of palled uneventfulness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2005

Jacquot has really excelled at recreating another era - the movie feels like a lost New Wave film just coming to light.

| Original Score: B | Jul 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2005

Whether focused on Lili's face or standing back to take in her long limbs, Caroline Champetier's enthralling black-and-white camerawork is at once nimble and evocative.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2005

Le Besco has an amazingly shaped face that, alone, takes you through most of the movie.

| Jun 24, 2005

It's one of those rich girl/bad boy things that defy understanding and leave you on the outside. Fascinated, but on the outside.

| Jun 24, 2005