From the first voyeuristic peak into the ruthless world to the haunting, accusatory, unforgettable final image, it’s a brilliant, stunning piece of work, perhaps not his best, but certainly his most fearless and impassioned.

| May 6, 2023

But even 20 years later, Demonlover still drips with a kind of icy and innovative cool, a virtual Videodrome starring some of the hippest women who ever walked onto a movie set and a jagged razor blade of a score courtesy of Sonic Youth.

| Sep 9, 2021

"For a movie that's such an artifact of its time, it doesn't feel dated so much as accurate, plausible, predicting the burgeoning anxieties of the time in which it takes place."

| Feb 24, 2021

Demonlover blends elements of the thriller, heist film, and porn with revolutionary verve, revealing the incredibly close proximity of high art and lowbrow kinks.

| Feb 20, 2021

While it still remains the oddest duck in Assayas's oeuvre, it is undeniably interesting to see him apply his cinematic gifts on something so far outside his comfort zone.

| Feb 19, 2021

The movie carries you along with a queasy momentum and a corybantic, flitting multitasker's eye for offhand detail.

| Feb 12, 2021

It is two-thirds of a good film stapled to one-third of a bad one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Choreographed to the jet-lagged jangle of Sonic Youth's guitar work, Demonlover uncovers the human misery behind cold commerce, and the harrowing reality beyond male fantasy.

| May 30, 2019

Assayas sometimes seems to make movies just to indulge his fetishes, which I suppose is a big reason why people become filmmakers in the first place.

| Mar 17, 2018

At once illness and antidote, wound and knife, chilling and fascinating-in short, demonic and loving-demonlover is a beautiful and disturbing contemporary filmic object, concentrating within itself most of Assayas's obsessions

| Nov 19, 2013

A stupendously intelligent assault on globalism, e-commerce, the media, [and] corporate culture.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 8, 2010

Delving into confusion and messing with genre expectations, as well as making some serious points about contemporary morality, this is thought-provoking film. Though not exactly an entirely successful one.

| Mar 2, 2008

Rather than deepening the mystery and sense of intoxication, the picture soon becomes one prolonged and very bad hangover.

| Mar 2, 2008

Flatulent, conceited and very, very confusing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 2, 2008

It's fun for a while, but gets steadily more opaque, elliptical and annoying.

| Mar 2, 2008

It's gripping and provocative, making effective use of actor Charles Berling and the music of Sonic Youth.

| Mar 2, 2008

A potent film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

Over and over, people hold solemn, antagonistic meetings over who'll get the rights to make computer-generated sleaze.

| Original Score: B | May 28, 2007

Our wait for a decent corporate espionage / interactive virtual porn film continues.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A silly, oddly disagreeable movie.

| Jan 26, 2006