Rust and Bone grows and breaks away from conventional stories about hope. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 27, 2023

“Rust and Bone” rarely offers the audience an opportunity to smile. It deals with tough issues and never adds an ounce of sugarcoating or melodrama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Audiard seeks to invest his audience on a physical and emotional level; not through narrative realism, but through a sensuous drama that mines the intimacy of its characters.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Rust and Bone possess a unique vivacity and hopefulness that just can't be shaken off. Despite Stéphanie's general lack of character, Cotillard lifts her to levels of emotional brilliance.

| Nov 16, 2020

Marion Cotillard was mesmerizing as an amputee in Rust and Bone.

| Jul 31, 2019

It's far more layered and subtle than its summary suggests, thanks to the magical combination of [Jacques] Audiard's direction and Marion Cotillard's uninhibited, prickly, incredible performance.

| Feb 26, 2019

Those who find themselves whipped up and ensnared in its melodramatic whirlpool may well come out of the other side feeling cleansed and thoroughly satisfied.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2019

Though Rust and Bone hovers on the edge of melodrama, it eventually navigates the dangers to become a touching, authentic film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 18, 2018

A masterpiece about the violence, the love and how there is a little of love in the violence and a little of violence in love. A must. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2018

Ends up running off the rails one or two times too often.

| Aug 30, 2018

Its scale, intelligence and willingness to go to some strange places without alienating the audience make this a very good film.

| Aug 10, 2018

Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone is thoroughly extraordinay.

| Jan 9, 2018

... where it falters is the latter half of the story... and the evolution (or lack thereof) of its protagonist and reluctantly drawn heroine.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2017

Built like an old, beat-up bomber - not necessarily the sleekest or most reliable, but perfectly engineered to drop emotional projectiles on its audience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2016

A slow meander through the lives of two very different people who make a connection. Often difficult to watch because it is raw emotion and pain coming at you from all corners, it is still fascinating because of two intriguing performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2016

Audiard visits a physicality that isn't necessarily female or male, but of the body, and toward the body, as in Cotillard's wide, lidded eyes when she watches him punching, thumping and bleeding in illegal bare-fisted takedown fights.

| Apr 10, 2014

An emotionally gripping if slightly meandering drama marked by two powerful lead performances.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2013

It's a film for people who believe that fallen souls aren't inevitably destined to become lost ones.

| Jun 20, 2013

...while all the admittedly well-wrought details engage us on an intellectual level and keep us watching, the film doesn't linger in the imagination the way truly great cinema does

| Original Score: 83/100 | Apr 27, 2013

there is no denying the cinematic power of Audiard's fearless storytelling

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2013