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

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

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 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

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

Exhilaratingly original.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2004

By far one of the most interesting and thoughtful pieces of cinema to savage American cinema screens in ages, and certainly the only incoming French mind-warper with a soundtrack by Sonic Youth.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2003

A stark, unsettling movie, one that grows darker and stranger with every little twist in the plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2003

Demonlover is so incomprehensible that you can't readily accuse it of being anything but almost unwatchable.

| Original Score: D | Oct 9, 2003

A tiresome exercise in self-demonization.

| Oct 8, 2003

All about modern disconnect -- hardly an original subject -- but the film gets style points, and in-your-face points.

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

For an hour or so, Demonlover is an entrancingly devious soap opera of executive decadence.

| Original Score: B | Oct 2, 2003

A multilayered meditation on the fast-blurring lines between fantasy and reality, and the seductive troika of money, power and sex.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 2, 2003

Expect demonlover to become a midnight-movie staple in the coming years. And expect shards of it to roil your dreams for weeks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2003

Disturbing, darkly beautiful.

| Sep 20, 2003

You'll be as transfixed as you are utterly confused.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 20, 2003

Well-scripted, well-acted and occasionally sexy, but just isn't all that interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2003