Combining elements of a D-grade erotic thriller and a deconstructed international thriller, Boarding Gate proves duly snazzy and sleazy - kinda skanky in a highfalutin' way.

| Sep 5, 2018

"Boarding Gate" is mired in secondhand, vaguely political notions about globalization and unwilling to really let itself go to extremes.

| Mar 9, 2018

In the spirit of the financial and creative constraints of B-movies, Assayas has taken his latest film [and] filled it with bare characters moving briskly across limited landscapes, and gotten a skimmed, thinned result of considerable kinetic emptiness.

| Nov 17, 2017

The movie itself is pathetic.

| Nov 15, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Distills genre tropes (and their consequent pleasures) to their lean, potent essence.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 30, 2008

When all the nonsense of Boarding Gate ends, only Asia remains in memory. She can light up the best and the worst of 'em.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2008

As for Argento ... yeah, she's got something. Now we'd like to see her in a movie that makes sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2008

The main thing interesting about Boarding Gate is the spectacle of Assayas' effort -- the attitude and the international backdrop -- not the story itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2008

In the "B" movie days, a story like this would shoot by in about 70 minutes without time to pick holes in the motives. But Assayas takes a bloated, boring 106 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2008

Could have been an exciting and inventive film, if only it weren't so bland and familiar.

| Original Score: c+ | Apr 4, 2008

| Original Score: B | Mar 31, 2008

Like just about everything in Boarding Gate, the finale suggests that its creators have been watching too many other movies with similar premises and payoffs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2008

The plot may be murky, but actress Asia Argento is a clear and commanding force throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2008

[Assayas] has concocted a plot that is dizzying and annoying at times, and it's hard to care about the characters in the shifting story. But B-movie veteran Argento's portrayal of Sandra is like watching a car careening down an incline.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2008

Writer-director Olivier Assayas must have been working out some personal demons to make something as embarrassing as Boarding Gate, the most trite and trivial piece of sleaze since Abel Ferrara's Snake Eyes.

| Original Score: C | Mar 27, 2008

There are long, droning bouts of dialog about nothing meant to link scenes together, but all Boarding Gate really does is fixate on watching Asia Argento do stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2008

This hypnotic, angular thriller about sex, murder, betrayal and money takes you on a feverish journey from nowhere to somewhere.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2008

A ridiculous poseur thriller that seems to be made up of the slow moments from Hong Kong action films and Euro-flashy stuff like Run Lola Run.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2008

The latest entry in this perplexing preoccupation with lowlifes is Boarding Gate, an astonishingly un-thrilling thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2008