They sprint across the screen. It's a great trick to build a scene where your actors can't stop moving. It makes the stakes so stupid, so high, so chaotic.

| Jan 20, 2022

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 25, 2011

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 25, 2011

Sort of a Hansel and Gretel outing with machetes and chainsaws substituting for the mythic oven.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2005

A sort of female action/revenge fantasy whose knives are sheathed in amusement.

| Feb 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2004

Never escapes its awkwardness.

| Original Score: C | May 4, 2004

Energetic, darkly funny and engaging from beginning to end.

| Original Score: B | Oct 28, 2003

Coline Serreau's "Chaos" defies categorization. It is an exciting film--part thriller, comedy, revenge tale, and feminist drama, blended together with compelling finesse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2003

Most of the film is devoted to the central character, and thanks to Frot, she's a most likable heroine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2003

The plot twists, sneaky humor and Brakni's strong debut bring intriguing order from this Chaos.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2003

What is surprising about "Chaos," given the sometimes raw subject matter, is how broadly funny it often is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2003

There's a core of anger running throughout Chaos, particularly in the steely performances by its two female leads, that gives this satisfying feminist revenge drama/satire its soul.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2003

Wild, sometimes sickening but surprisingly hilarious ride that never lets up even if it does stack the deck and is overly obvious in its implications and sexual politics.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2003

At once a brilliant strike for feminism and a condemnation of a backwards culture, this controversial thriller is darkly amusing and disturbing cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 23, 2003

It's all too convenient, but has eclat and two appealing stars.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2003

Despite some odd pacing and a longish, off-putting flashback, Chaos succeeds more than it fails.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2003