What emerges is imperfect but shows a bravura talent with an engagingly elliptical storytelling style.

| Feb 7, 2007

Autumn is a nearly perfect satire of the pretentious French thriller. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't know it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 24, 2006

A colossal misfire, a tedious film noir wannabe.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 23, 2006

It's hard enough to care about why these people are striking fashion-model poses and shooting at each other without having to think about their poor, bruised inner children.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 22, 2006

Hmm, has somebody seen Breathless? I guess so.

| Jun 22, 2006

Pic overall has the look, depth and emotional impact of a glossy magazine fashion spread.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2006

McGee may well have strong films in him, but this one feels pretentious and gassy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2006

The cross-cultural backstory behind Autumn, a new French-language feature written, produced and directed by Ra'up McGee, is ultimately more interesting than what's seen onscreen.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2006

I'm not sure this is a parody or not.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 9, 2006

The film looks great, but there's nothing under the high-gloss veneer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2006

If you're in that select demographic of moviegoers who lose sleep over whether a synthesis of Kyzysztof Kieslowski and Quentin Tarantino could ever be forged, you can relax at last.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2006

Slow, pretentious and proudly inscrutable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 9, 2006

Though Lucas and Jacob are lovely actors, you are not likely to care whose toes end up wearing tags.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2006

Autumn is as dry and lifeless as the leaves that fall to the ground in its opening images.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2006

An unsavory pastiche of the familiar and the overdone, flavored with faux-pungent, existential, interminable dialogue.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 9, 2006

The cast is uniformly effective, from veteran Aumont down to relative newcomer Droukarova, who gives a muted but compelling performance.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2006

Elegantly stylized but emotionally strained.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2006

The seamy underbelly of Paris seen through romantic American eyes keeps the noir alive.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 7, 2006

[The] film begins with too much pretension but matures into a slinky, sexy piece of mood music.

| Jun 6, 2006

Finally, a version of Reservoir Dogs for The New Yorker set.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2006