Everything Went Fine is well made without being entertaining—though entertainment doesn’t seem to be its goal—and it will reward patient audiences who appreciate a deliberate march toward an inevitable conclusion.

| Apr 28, 2023

A meticulously balanced if oddly inert film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2023

At heart, in its firmness of pace and shotmaking, Everything Went Fine is like a family procedural — sometimes tearful, sometimes funny, even suspenseful.

| Apr 21, 2023

An emotional and complex portrait of a family in crisis.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

In truth, every performance in “Everything Went Fine” is nicely judged—too much so, I suspect, for many filmgoers, who will be praying for someone to explode. Yet the movie is anything but bland.

| Apr 14, 2023

It’s life-affirming and teaches us something valid about life’s unexpected but unavoidable challenges, eschewing all temptations to give in to sentimentality.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 14, 2023

Dussollier is formidable, vacillating between desperation and entitlement, but there’s a repressed quality to the movie — and to Marceau’s performance — that mutes the emotions, sanding down conflicts to pat exchanges.

| Apr 13, 2023

Ozon adopts a light-footed, naturalistic approach in this study of domestic dynamics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2022

A sober, unsentimental treatment of a rather thorny subject matter. One of Ozon’s best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2022

It’s rich, infinitely complex and emotionally honest material. Marceau is flawless among a cast of near-perfect turns.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 17, 2022

It’s an engaging movie about being able to control one’s destiny, but the wait continues for when this director will pull something truly heartfelt out of the bag.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2022

While Ozon grasps the gravity, he never slips into solemnity. And the din of competing voices and moments of near-farce serve to remind you that death is just one speaking part among many — for all that it gets the last word.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2022

I can’t offer this as a cheerful night’s entertainment, but it’s superbly made, completely engrossing and very grown-up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 19, 2022

Ozon remains a terrific actors' director, with both Marceau and especially Dussollier giving lively performances that afford the film its limited spark.

| Jul 9, 2021

Although the subject of euthanasia does not normally suggest a good time at the movies, French director François Ozon serves one up anyway with the help of a raft of crafty and appealing veteran actors.

| Jul 8, 2021

The film is an openly, almost assertively bourgeois drama that wears its politics on its business-casual sleeves but can in no way be mistaken for a polemic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 8, 2021

Whatever its flaws, Everything Went Fine rallies with a beautiful final act.

| Jul 8, 2021

Another type of drama would put the issue-led handwringing at the centre of things. Not this film. It is just the hinge on which the family drama turns, and the performances from Dussollier and Marceau are quietly outstanding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2021

Everything Went Fine eschews emotional fireworks in favour of nicely observed small moments...

| Jul 7, 2021

The prolific French director has returned to Cannes with this clear-eyed, handsomely constructed drama about the emotionally and ethically taxing business of arranging a relative's assisted suicide, with a welcome juicy leading role for Sophie Marceau.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2021