While the soft pastel backdrops are rather lovely, the film seems cocooned by design in its own prettiness, doing little to illustrate the encroaching darkness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2022

Though somewhat flawed and less artistically daring than it could be, Charlotte still makes for an emotional, humane viewing experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2022

Tahir Rana and Éric Warin make provocative storytelling choices, consistently accentuating the political darkness around Salomon with a festering sense of familial unease.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2022

A sobering animated biopic...

| Dec 9, 2022

An imperfect yet compelling overview of Charlotte’s life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2022

This is an absorbingly told story; Knightley’s vocal performance is engaging and Charlotte’s face, in particular, is strongly and expressively drawn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2022

A tragic reminder that fleeing a nightmare may mean more than just keeping it in your rearview mirror.

| May 12, 2022

Charlotte is a museum trip of a movie: quiet, quaint and leisurely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2022

Isnt afraid to confront the more morally complicated aspects of Salomons biography, although in an apparent attempt to keep the film tasteful, some of the horrors her family endured are kept so tidily off-screen that their impact is a little diminished.

| Apr 21, 2022

In the end, “Charlotte” is bereft of the spirit of the artist who made the uncanny “Life? or Theatre?” What an even better tribute the movie would have been had it also taken heated energy from Salomon’s art.

| Apr 21, 2022

For the chance to become acquainted with Salomon’s tragic and unique tale, as well as with her enduring output, this well-intended portrait is worth a look.

| Apr 21, 2022

This remains a remarkable story, even if told in a less-than-remarkable film.

| Apr 21, 2022

Why use animation to tell such a harrowing story? In the hands of directors Eric Warin and Tahir Rana and their creative colleagues, it's the perfect choice.

| Sep 27, 2021

For a film which is so consumed by the notion of painting as Charlotte's primary means of expression, the screenplay, by Erik Rutherford and David Bezmozgis is illuminated by some very elegant and articulate dialogue.

| Sep 16, 2021

The genius of Charlotte, directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, is to recognize that the best way to tell this story is through animation that can reproduce Salomon's quick expressionistic gouaches as it recounts her life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2021