It's refreshing, but strains credulity and feels rushed, rather than romantic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2025

The relationships at the heart of director Claire Denis’s Both Side of the Blade, make up less a love triangle than, as the title suggests, a double-edge sword — one that cuts all involved.

| Jul 28, 2024

Both Sides of the Blade isn’t as impactful as it should be. Still, the film is an impeccable showcase of how terrific Vincent Lindon and Juliette Binoche are as actors, and are able to chew up the screen and make the most of their time together.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 6, 2024

Both Sides of the Blade tells a pandemic adjacent story of a love triangle and the ripples of misguided and candid love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2024

Be it film, novel, poem or song, the triangle is one of the most frequent tropes in storytelling. Denis is such a gifted moviemaker, though, that cliche is absent from the precise and specific moments inside her intelligently constructed universe.

| Jul 27, 2023

Being incarcerated in this hermetically sealed world for nearly two hours is a suffocating experience at times, despite the impressively mature performances of Binoche, Lindon and Colin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2023

It’s a film that dwells within the rawness of jealousy and suspicion that never really goes away within a romantic ecosystem.

| Jun 6, 2023

The vindication of female sexual pleasure and the moral ambiguities of love are just some of the facets that the filmmaker analyzes through melodrama, certainly, but with a surprisingly ironic and playful perspective. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 27, 2023

Reaches Vertigo's (Hitchcock, 1958) limits, in which the power of passion and desire can be the salt of the couple, and with the same determination, their demise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 14, 2023

It is not so much the theme of fidelity that interests Denis, but rather the anarchic drift of desire and what someone can do when that inner fire blandishes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2023

Denis and co-writer Christine Angot, the author of the novel the film is based on, allow Sara to express herself with a sincerity that could sound suicidal to any couple. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2023

Claire Denis submerges us in the turbidity of melodramatic labyrinths, those in which it's easy to lose composure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2023

Containing all of the trademark ellipses and ambiguity fans have come to expect from the director, this tale of toxic love builds to a climactic argument between leads Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon where they leave every drop of sweat on the table.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 3, 2023

Denis treats her protagonists with exceptional affection, we don't judge her, we simply accompany her in her journey, and similarly, the film doesn't shy away from the humor that stems out of her contained fury and passions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 20, 2022

Even though the script is unconvincing, the performances and the passionate expressions are so authentic that anyone can relate [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: B- | Oct 15, 2022

All in all, Denis pulls you into the tension and mystery of her drama and gifts us with a final, wise solution for any love dilemma, and just for that, the movie is worth a watch. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 3, 2022

Both Sides of the Blade presents that rarely depicted scenario of a woman with two loves that seem impossible and ultimately unsatisfying. Denis captures this angst brilliantly with close-ups and tends to remain involved in the emotionally messy stages ..

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2022

There’s plenty of Denis poetry and ambience in Both Sides of the Blade, but there’s red-in-the-face screaming, too, brought about by the unresolvable ache of loving two people at the same time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2022

Its failures seem to me much more stimulating than the presumed achievements of other films, more measured and premeditated, more calculated and predictable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 30, 2022

Speaks from the skin, with the camera following the characters' bodies, the emotional ambiguities, the sentimental contradictions, and the conflict between intellect and desire. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2022