The sumptuous visuals make it eminently watchable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2011

Ozon films this saga with a straight face, but the overripe dialogue, dodgy back-projection and unrestrained acting all signal that he is smirking behind his hand.

| Nov 19, 2010

A film that's a total mess, but in kind of a beautiful way.

| Mar 19, 2009

With a surface like a trashy novel and the undercurrents of a social satire, Ozon's British period drama is a slightly odd mix, feeling both arch and astute at the same time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Franois Ozon is a Gallic Michael Winterbottom, if not in style then at least in his determination to do something different every time. As with Winterbottom, sometimes the result is great and sometimes not.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

The French director Franois Ozon has taken Elizabeth Taylor's beadily satiric novel and transformed it into a droll and somewhat disturbing fantasia on the creative temperament.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

How director Francois Ozon received a Golden Berlin Bear nomination for this shoddy movie, The Sneak will never know.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2008

A less than heavenly time is guaranteed for anyone who parts with their hard-earned to watch this formulaic period film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Like Ozon's 8 Women, the costumes are magnificent and Angel's mansion is a shrine to the gods of bad taste. All that's missing is a heroine worthy of Bette Davis in her heyday.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Choosing to clothe his whole movie in the outr frocks of a bad Technicolor romance, Ozon serves up camp fun, but that's it.

| Aug 29, 2008

But this really is a failure - an honourable failure, arguably, but a failure, and a pretty complete one at that.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2008

The film bristles with contemporary subtext and takes swipes at mediocre artists who believe their own press, and the culture of celebrity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Despite an impressive cast and a well-known director, this misfiring costume drama is a haphazard mess that ends up more unintentionally funny than emotionally engaging.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Ozon's film plays a difficult hand, never settling for all-out high kitsch or straight melodrama. One of the year's most charming failures.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Aug 29, 2008

Garai is great, but Ozon is about as adept at directing Brits as Woody Allen. Mind you, the set and costumes are glorious: this is one expensive folly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Angel is both a sly take on the melodramatic films of another era -- imagine sets and scenery out of The Magnificent Ambersons, for example -- and a spoof of contemporary celebrity, among other things.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2008

Angel seems like a collection of misjudgements that required much effort, but with little satisfaction for that effort

| Nov 17, 2007

[Ozon is] too tony now for the vaguely subversive pastiches with which he made his mark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2007

The parts are ultimately greater than the whole in the case of Good Luck Chuck, with the overall chemistry between Cook and Alba proving more memorable than any particular joke or sequence. You may mildly enjoy Chuck as you're watching it, but the film wi

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Sporting an excellent performance by a very promising young actress, this is a film that forces you to pay attention. More than that, it's fulfills the first requirement of any good movie: it's one you'll want to watch again.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 21, 2007