This haunting coming-of-age film uses horror tropes to slowly unsettle the audience, building towards an ending that left me a bit shaken.

| Feb 13, 2024

A knowing horror atmosphere brings freshness to an otherwise familiar rites-of-passage story, and the undertow of unease pays off in a multilayered finale

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2023

A script replete with familiar places, common to other film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 21, 2023

Gorgeous and haunting, LeBon's adaptation of Bastien Vivès' 2017 comic Une Soeur/A Sister makes a few subtle changes with massive ramifications for the text.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2023

A deeply affecting coming-of-age portrait, one in which tenderness and betrayal are raw new pleasures and pains to be discovered.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Jul 27, 2023

[T]he mood of the movie never supports its brooding aims.

| Jul 16, 2023

Falcon Lake is summer-loving in the vein of Call Me By Your Name, both innocent and daringly amorous, as every Bastien and Chloé interaction -- each bike ride, prank and outfit change -- is charged, taken personally and riddled with perspective gaps.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2023

The film is a tender coming-of-age tale with the shimmering unease of a ghost story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 27, 2023

Charlotte Le Bon captures a transition from childhood innocence to young adulthood with sensitivity and grace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2023

With Falcon Lake, director Charlotte Le Bon creates something wholly unique that also feels familiar, an uncanny experience that makes the hazy days of summer feel dangerous.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2023

Not unlike last year's 'Aftersun,' 'Falcon Lake' is a drifting movie, like a summer vacation itself, where moments can feel like boredom, but always have something lingering, or simmering, beneath. It's a thing of beauty, and sadness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 16, 2023

Falcon Lake is an achingly romantic, deeply sensual and sweetly sensitive sort-of ghost story that has one foot firmly in the afterlife.

| Jun 13, 2023

Rarely the patterned behaviors of this age have been so well embodied in a coming-of-age drama that, in this case, is mildly stimulated by an understated supernatural dimension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2023

Falcon Lake is an atmospheric drama that effectively shows the parallels of experiencing mysterious horror and experiencing teenage angst over love and romance. It's a 'slow burn' movie with good acting performances from Joseph Engel and Sara Montpetit.

| Jun 8, 2023

Falcon Lake gets right to the heart of the unease of adolescence and first infatuation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2023

Charlotte Le Bon’s feature film debut Falcon Lake is an immersive, poetic deep dive into that strange, hazy time between childhood and adolescence

| Jun 7, 2023

I'm kind of tepid on it... But [Charlotte Le Bon] definitely has chops. She has a great sense of visual style; I'm looking forward to her next film.

| Jun 6, 2023

I'm not sure the ending really works, but I like that [Charlotte Le Bon] has made this movie.

| Jun 6, 2023

It becomes clear that we’re watching the best moments of a story that’s destined to end badly. Yet we keep watching, due in large part to the deeply human performances from Engel and Montpetit.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 5, 2023

The film has a timeless quality to it, and above all else, I think that’s what drew me into the proceedings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2023