The movie's treatment of her same-sex affairs may be as tasteful as the set design, but the film is an absorbing introduction to a trailblazing artist.

| Mar 3, 2020

Keira Knightley is magnetic in a Paris-set period drama with a dollop of queer feminist energy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2019

[Keira Knightley] gets far more to do and is infinitely better at it than usual in the brisk new period piece Colette

| Jan 26, 2019

In the wrong films Knightley is a pretty girl with a small bag of tricks. In the right ones she's formidable. Crucially here, she also cuts it as a wordsmith.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2019

Knightley's Colette is fine too. But nothing more. The role required a maelstrom of tortured angst and rousing defiance to support the weight of the film. It never arrived.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2019

Knightley, as the titular French writer, has seldom been better or more dazzling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

This pansexual period biopic is remarkable, captivating and utterly fascinating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

Knightley excels in the title role but, as drama, this biopic still feels a little undercharged.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2019

Westmoreland gives us a heroine as mighty as anything from Marvel, given vivid life by Knightley in the role of this fearless actor's career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

Knightley and West have a tremendous chemistry: two very smart and worldly performances that suggest that Colette and Willy did enjoy something like a real love affair...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

For all its meticulous embroidery around a very singular life, Colette speaks to our moment quite tartly too...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

A dutiful biopic of a fascinating woman that should have taken itself less seriously.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

In her best role since Saul Dibb's 2008 period drama The Duchess, Knightley brings Colette to life with a performance that blends grit with glamour in seemingly effortless fashion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2019

All the affairs and scandals that a French literary genius could wish for, with the bonus of a modern heroine and a story that acknowledges the diversity that has always been with us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2019

There's something about the figure of Colette whose ye olde punk rock feminist spirit of throwing caution and convention to the wind electrifies Knightly. Her performance comes alive here in ways we've rarely seen from her before.

| Dec 31, 2018

Colette features some wonderful performances, especially from Keira Knightley, who deftly, convincingly charts Colette's journey from "innocent" to authentic bohemian.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 22, 2018

Knightley's determinedly jolly attitude successfully robs [the affair] of its eroticism.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 19, 2018

It's a modest but handsome production, lovingly photographed by Giles Nuttgens and mostly filmed in Hungary, with period trappings that seem authentic in every respect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2018

Colette is a not a film about a writer; it's about a marriage.

| Nov 1, 2018

There's more going on in Colette than tame hagiography; the results are happily vibrant, even if the sexual inequities depicted remain grimly pertinent.

| Oct 13, 2018