It is rare for a film to look objectively at war’s after effects and the violence it instills on its participants, and yet Alice Winocour’s Disorder is not concerned with pity or ferocity.

| Aug 1, 2023

This is the best Schoenaerts has been since Bullhead ... his paranoia consumes all and Wincour's camera swirls... stretching the tension well past bearable up to something kind of exquisite

| Jan 10, 2022

Schoenaerts has a knack for amplifying his presence to appear larger within a scene. He fills the character of Vincent like a man made of stone.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2020

A simmering but underwhelming thriller, its quiet, methodical contemplation of a simple thread is punctuated by admittedly punchy action sequences. The overall effect is not necessarily disorderly, but one that does not fulfil its full potential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2019

I desperately wished Disorder was about women's trauma instead of the tired cliché of a male soldier's suffering.

| Mar 7, 2019

Schoenaerts and Kruger create a quiet sense of unrest, adding personal and emotional tension between the two against the backdrop of the suspense of the film.

| Feb 6, 2019

A triumph for Winocour's inventive, aesthetic take on the thriller genre, and some super, undemonstrative acting from Matthias Schoenaerts as the wired and traumatised Vincent

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

"Disorder" is a miss. It takes too long to get going and when it finally does, the investment in anything that's happening isn't very high.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Disorder is so lean and confident it feels alien in comparison to the bloated schlock modern Hollywood would categorize as "suspenseful." Winocour refuses to deal in absolutes, pumping newfound danger through the veins of a tired genre set-up.

| Aug 22, 2018

... unnerving take on the home-invasion picture...

| Nov 18, 2017

It's a bit rote as both a PTSD and home invasion picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

It all builds to a final shot where so much has happened, both real and imagined, that we're not quite sure if it's a daydream or a happy ending.

| Jul 12, 2017

The grainy images feed Vincent's growing paranoia - as the sickly green night-vision goggle images shared by Antars and his men as they patrol their valley heighten their dread of what's out there.

| Jun 20, 2017

The disorder of the title isn't limited to Vincent's PTSD and alienation. His entire world is wired into violence and instability.

| Mar 30, 2017

Streamlining a film to cut out the fluff can be a great thing; editing it till its bones show, however, is obviously less than ideal.

| Jan 2, 2017

Schoenaerts is intense as always, and Winocour puts us in his place with nervy bursts of too-loud electro, but the pace is so slow-burn it's often just slow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

If you're a Schoenaerts fan, his performance is worth the price of admission alone.

| Dec 14, 2016

Disorder is a character study that flirts with becoming a love story while retaining the far cooler blood of a thriller in its veins.

| Dec 13, 2016

Alarmingly sensuous thriller. Her attention to sound is gripping, nailing the narrative to Vincent's point-of-view, the audience sharing his hyper-attentive subjectivity. The surfaces are chaotic and subterfuges compound.

| Oct 29, 2016

[T]here's no denying that the climax becomes routine ... just as it's unavoidable that there's disappointment at the end of it all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2016