Instead of trying to master visual pleasure with narrative, Femme Fatale revels in the way the femme fatale releases the film from sequence, logic, and ultimately even from misogyny.

| Aug 1, 2023

De Palma brings a lifetime's contemplation of cinematic trickery to this, his most abstract and satisfying thriller.

| Nov 29, 2018

Flies completely off of the rails, morphing from tantalizing trash to nowhere nonsense.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Brian De Palma returns in full style with his best movie since Scarface.

| May 26, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: A- | Aug 7, 2004

Rebecca Romijn's sexy performance will no doubt mercifully distract some viewers from the silly story, overblown melodrama, and general cheesiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 9, 2003

Like a great bottle of low-cost wine, it's a sexy, silly, thrilling indulgence to satisfy your cravings.

| Original Score: 79/100 | Aug 3, 2003

This script is as oblique as it is pretentious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 5, 2003

It's much better than you've heard.

| Original Score: A | Apr 2, 2003

De Palma pulls his own switcheroo on the real story as it's about to reach its climax and replaces it with a fake one.

| Original Score: C | Mar 27, 2003

...suspenseful and sensuous, exasperatingly preposterous, and almost every minute entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 20, 2003

Wickedly funny, visually engrossing, never boring, this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture.

| Mar 17, 2003

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2003

So what was De Palma thinking...did the moviemaking mastermind behind such intriguing fare like Blow Out, Scareface, and the super-charged Mission: Impossible drink too much cough syrup to the point where it left him uncharacteristically disoriented?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2003

Como obra de arte, este projeto falha grosseiramente (e vai despertar a revolta de muitos espectadores). J como exerccio cinematogrfico, merece um pouco mais de ateno.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2003