Runs into some problems but is redeemed by a powerful finish.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 15, 2004

The most cinematic of the three films.

| Jun 11, 2004

The most complex of the three, Life is also the most powerful and revelatory.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 27, 2004

Bruno's domination of the first installment contributes to its being the least appealing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2004

An ambitious experiment that makes for a more satisfying intellectual puzzle than it does an involving narrative.

Full Review | May 21, 2004

Sharp, fast-paced and eminently logical.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 7, 2004

Belvaux doesn't yet have the filmmaking chops to create a believable thriller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2004

The weakest of the three films in the series.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 3, 2004

The first and strongest feature in The Trilogy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2004

An unflinchingly intelligent probe into far-left monomania and the brutish power of ideology divorced from ordinary empathy.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2004

On the Run has some moments of excitement and is certainly uncompromising.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2004

The first and third add up to something very poignant and satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2004

An enjoyably spare and fast- moving French thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2004

The first installment in Lucas Belvaux's ambitious Trilogy -- three films of different genres who's chronology and characters overlap -- is a slow, moody thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2004

Technically adept but alienating.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 29, 2004

Each film stands satisfyingly on its own as a genre piece, but the triplex provides added understanding of character and consequence.

Full Review | Jan 29, 2004

Dark, unflinching study of chemical and emotional addiction.

Full Review | Jan 27, 2004

Movies, particularly post-Spielbergian Hollywood product, tend to steer your frame of reference with fascistic discipline. Here, delivered in a shiftable tripartite sequence, is a movie experience you can shape yourself.

Full Review | Jan 27, 2004

As a genre exercise, it's a ringing success, but the film lacks subtext.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 16, 2004

This is a gripping thriller. It's so sparse, it feels as though it's been pared down to the bone marrow.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2003