At its core, this is a fraught love story of both romantic and paternal brokenness.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2024

Ultimately, Annette feels a little too much like its eponymous character: occasionally melodic, full of potential, but rather wooden underneath.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2024

It dwells in melancholy while it blushes through sarcasm, ending in an ardent, touching while warring, and incandescent piece of bizarre cinema.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 12, 2023

At times, it seems that Annette gets confused amongst its own numerous allegories and narrative games. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 24, 2023

Your enjoyment will be proportionate to how much you enjoy Driver’s broad, brutish, physical style – think Lenny Bruce and Kylo Ren.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

Annette is a surreal, grandiose musical that is full of allegory yet manages to pull you in with its bizarre charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2023

Annette has several dialectics at work — the angry crowd against the stubborn man is just one — but it plays more like a diary of scattered thoughts and a feature with unpleasant music and characters....

| Jul 27, 2023

Weirdest, creative & original films to come out this year. Driver & Cotillard perform to their highest levels in here bringing to life ever little bit of this story! I was mesmerized watching this movie as I had no idea where it would go next.

| Jul 26, 2023

Flamboyant, inventive, and striking. Carax is the right director for Sparks's aesthetic and the cast’s heavy-hitting lead trio is equally as appropriate for the dark & stormy fairy tale.

| Jul 24, 2023

As someone who’s never truly enjoyed a Carax film but is a huge Sparks fan, this is my favorite of his movies...

| Nov 28, 2022

Nothing short of a stroke of genius, a master filmmaker at the top of his game, fulfilling a promise that he started teasing 35 years ago to combine sound and image for the entire duration of this wholly unique experience.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 22, 2022

A masterpiece to be discussed for generations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 13, 2022

“Annette” is a mixed bag with too much artistry to dismiss and too many flaws to overlook.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Annette pretends to woo us but it’s actually implicating us in a long-term crime of creative complicity.

| Jul 25, 2022

... A decalogue of the ailments those who have succeeded creatively in their endeavors face under the shallow dictatorship of likes, views, posts and reposts. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 30, 2022

For all that "Annette" is unsatisfying and impenetrable and abrasive, it has moments so full of cinematic brio that you can't stop watching. Carax pulls just about everything out of his bag of tricks, and many scenes are damned thrilling to watch.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

Frankly, no one will be prepared for what theyre about to see. Any preconceived notion of what Annette may be must be ignored because it defies expectation and rules itself as an unpredictable journey.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Mar 7, 2022

There are messages to be found in the feverish journey... The issue is that those messages, and even a linear story, get lost a number of times within the exuberant spectacle of the film.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 3, 2022

"The movie may yield limits to our investment in its directors style, but rarely limits of our appreciation."

| Feb 22, 2022

Whether lost in pure expression, meta-ness, or self-awareness, it operates on multiple levels and leaves the viewer somewhat removed, if also fascinated, bewildered, and hungry for more.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022