Seduction is more important than deduction in this chic display of star quality to the eighth power.

| Dec 9, 2013

For all the tumultuous entrances and flouncing exits, the eight principals manage maybe three laughs among them.

| Dec 9, 2013

A note of genuine sadness sneaks through at the end, but for the most part, enjoying 8 Women involves coming to terms with its artificiality and learning to appreciate it from a distance. Behind all that thick glass, it's still a work of art.

| Dec 9, 2013

The cast is the main attraction in Francois Ozon's witty, even touching 8 Women.

| Dec 9, 2013

The writing is very clever and it is a hoot watching the celebrated cast ham it up.

| Dec 9, 2013

The French screen royalty assembled by Ozon and the film's sheer exuberance in its own artifice make this a delight from beginning to end.

| Dec 4, 2012

Ozon's notion of derision is perfectly carried out by his multi-generational name cast.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2008

This is a style of camp so broad that even the most bovine straight can get it.

| Jan 26, 2006

Some may find Ozon's rigorously clever deconstruction of so many conventions a little too French for their tastes, but cineasts and worshippers of les femmes at their most fatales will find this farce wonderfully fierce.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2003

The enfant terrible of French cinema, Franois Ozon's brave foray into the mind of not one, but eight, women is a gloriously-executed examination of what lies beneath the manicured faade of the female species.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2003

With its Gallic all-diva cast and Technicolor hues, not to mention contrived murder-mystery plot and sporadic musical numbers, it's a tribute to artifice and femininity, and the ways they intersect.

| Mar 12, 2003

The film starts to feel like decorative misogyny.

| Mar 7, 2003

Each performance is beautifully controlled, notably Huppert's devastating comic turn as Augustine, and integrated into a seamless ensemble.

| Dec 3, 2002

An oddity, not without charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2002

Leave your sense of reason at the door and surrender yourself to the oo-la-laughs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2002

Ozon plainly worships the idea of the grand dame, and the movie allows him both to honor and deride his own devotion.

| Nov 10, 2002

A delectable, frothy, often over-the-top 1950s murder mystery by director Francois Ozon.

| Nov 9, 2002

Proves to be a pleasant romp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2002

It is our awareness that five of the brightest French stars have come together to have fun that makes the picture bubble.

| Oct 8, 2002

Visually, it adores the women it introduces. Emotionally and intellectually, it mocks them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 4, 2002