Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A good-looking but slim confection that's short on the multi-characterisation and sense of entwined destinies that mark the great Lelouch sagas.

| Jan 15, 2008

According to common usage, the French word stupide comes closer to silly than to dumb, which is how I might rationalize my affection for this harebrained, obvious, but euphoric tale.

| Jan 15, 2008

Lelouch isn't interested in anything so pedestrian as plausible narrative.... some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 2, 2005

Lelouch's wink at the viewer, his gentle undermining of the illusion of the dramatic unity of time and place, playfully tweaks the film's fundamental project of connection.

| Nov 11, 2004

It's ludicrous.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Because the majority of scenes are drawn out and obviously improvised, this disjointed and rambling confection will have limited appeal to others.

| Original Score: 2.25/5 | Apr 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 2, 2004

rambling and far too long

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2004

Lelouch ... assuring he doesn't fully lose his audience by the convolutions of the mind, still actively takes part in putting up a fog screen as to avoid total comprehension.

| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2003

This is like a collection of the best moments from Claude Lelouch's filmography -- with bits and pieces joyously borrowed from his films from the 1970s and '80s, when he was at his most prolific and ingenious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 24, 2003

The most sophisticated love story since In the Mood for Love, The House of Mirth and The English Patient.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Sep 18, 2003

... simply abstract, substituting romantic gesture for romance and gluing scenes together with vague emotional logic and silky style.

| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2003

You'll either like this soaringly daft confection, even as it aggravates you with its self-absorption, or you won't. I did.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 29, 2003

This drowsy caper comes on like a fun-house mirror of layered pretensions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2003

The movie is overcrowded with ideas, any one of which might have made a fun premise. Put them all together and the result is just plain silly.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2003

Few, if any, other actors could match Irons' stiff-lipped exterior sealing an internal combustion engine of mischief and passion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2003

May not be entirely successful, but there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2003

...plays like your neighbors' two-hour vacation slideshow that they insist on showing every time you come over.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2003

This saga dulls your senses as it weaves across the globe.

| Aug 25, 2003