Yes, there’s lots of sex and full-frontal nudity, but this is really a film about the intoxicating allure of cinema and its desensitising power, written by the last genuinely great philosopher film critic, Gilbert Adair.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2024

The pleasures of "The Dreamers" stay mostly on the surface. But when the surface is as stylish and sexy as this, it's hard to complain.

| Mar 13, 2018

Fans of film and gorgeous naked people of either sex will find much here to interest them. But it also has moments that make you want to throw stones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

A real pleasure.

| Jan 26, 2006

The venue for Pitt's marvelous coming-out performance.

| Original Score: B- | May 3, 2005

Exhilarating.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

Not good for you, but wickedly pleasurable all the same.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2004

The Dreamers is infused with the same kind of wistful melancholy that made the French New Wave films so winning, and it's all gorgeous to look at.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2004

Swept away by the intensity of the characters' movie debates and sexual games, Bertolucci often recaptures the film-besotted spirit of the period.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2004

Ambitious and uneven, visceral and pungent.

| Original Score: B | Mar 4, 2004

A film about youth and passion that seems old and passionless.

| Feb 26, 2004

Its nostalgia and narcissism are ultimately two versions of the same thing, and neither can reopen cross-cultural channels. Instead they keep this story stuck in the past, frozen and intact and irrelevant.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 20, 2004

A rare movie made by and for adults, haunts its watcher for some time, despite its shortcomings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2004

It is a well-made film in many ways, but I found in the callowness of these youths nothing to admire.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 20, 2004

The Dreamers makes its point with clips of old films. And yes, there is quite a bit of sex and nudity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2004

[A] provocative, sensual feast.

| Feb 13, 2004

It is both a love song to escapism and a warm embrace of the real world -- a wake-up call that one place, without the other to occasionally return to, would make life for us (who are the real dreamers) far less wonderful.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2004

Do these characters really care about the collected works of Godard? Not for one Parisian minute.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2004

Anyone seeking cheap titillation would do better to invest their movie cash in a fresh copy of Playboy or Penthouse than to spend the two hours of contemplation needed to fully appreciate the myriad layers of The Dreamers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2004

An ambitious and exciting piece of work, a movie about sex and movies made by a filmmaker who understands the power of each to set off fantasy, create addiction, incite danger and transform the spirit.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2004