This is an original and auspicious work from [Alice Englert] -- carrying at least some shared DNA with the ashy black comedy of early films by Englert’s mother Jane Campion.

| Dec 28, 2024

There is a blueprint of a worthwhile story here with three-dimensional characters, but the finished product is severely lacking.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2024

Englert's first feature film as writer/director is intense, surreal, and chaotic at times, but earns its touching moments when they come... The narrative seems to have a life of its own, meandering, flipping on its head, and delving into darkness.

| Jul 7, 2024

The title of “Bad Behaviour” is a bit too on the nose.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2024

With a meandering structure and terrific cast, the film is packed with clever, beautifully played moments that highlight difficulties people have relating to others, especially when everyday issues complicate things.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2024

The film has its share of missteps, but Bad Behaviour clearly demonstrates Englert’s future as a filmmaker, and once again, why Jennifer Connelly remains one of the best actresses in the game.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 18, 2024

One wishes that the forcefulness of Bad Behaviour's ideas matched the conviction Englert obviously had.

| Jun 18, 2024

...agreeable satire moves towards drama, but the trajectory is worth following and Englert and Connelly’s performances power this to a hard-earned and rewarding conclusion that rejects male control in favour of women’s understanding of their situation...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2024

Englert’s script is an actor’s dream. Connelly, who has matured magnificently in recent years and now ranks among the best in her generation, gives it all she’s got.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 14, 2024

There are some scattered laughs for those on the same offbeat wavelength, but the script doesn’t provide much incentive for emotional investment in these eccentric misfits.

| Jun 14, 2024

Englert doesn't wrestle the material into a manageable form, and struggles to find a consistent tone.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2024

While not everything coalesces between the two side of the film, the razor sharp satirizing of the wellness industry absolutely hits.

| Jun 14, 2024

It’s easy to see that co-star/writer/director Englert has desires to lean into experiences of being involved in the world of actors and filmmakers, but this black comedy is too much of a mess tonally to really know how to handle what’s on its mind.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 13, 2024

Though often funny, and with moments of daring, Bad Behaviour is just too haphazard to really hang together, and is generally rather grating.

| Jun 12, 2024

strange number .... operates on a jolts-per-minute schedule to create florid camp with heapin’ helpin’ of doom. Yikes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2024

Englert is primarily pursuing an acting exercise with the movie, but small moments of focus makes some difference, suggesting the presence of a stronger film buried beneath all the showiness.

| Original Score: C | Feb 28, 2024

The first half is nearly flawless with original character work and laugh-out-loud zingers...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2024

This descent into madness works when it centres the tender moments of the human experience. The adult swaddling release when life gets rough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2023

Connelly never ceases to be anything less than mesmerising as the kind of older woman full of spit, vinegar and shrapnel who could go off at any second.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2023

You’ve got to give it up for any movie that has the sense to cast Ben Whishaw as a creepy little twerp as opposed to the world’s most gentle boy yet again.

| Nov 10, 2023