A quiet and silent sort of romance movie, one where looks to convey emotions where words are not allowed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 20, 2021

The story takes a path that is not surprising. What makes the film engaging is the route it takes to get there.

| Sep 27, 2017

Plot complications lessen the movie, but intermittently it is genuinely moving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2016

There's an inevitability to the proceedings which turns out to be not so inevitable after all, particularly in the final act, when the seemingly one-note Shulem is given unexpected depth.

| Jan 1, 2016

You can't get better than Israeli actress Yaron, who already triumphed as a married Hasidim in the heralded Israeli film, Fill the Void.

| Jan 1, 2016

Religion both restricts and gives purpose to the people in Flix & Meira, an acutely observed and perfectly played slice of human drama set mostly in Montreal.

| Jan 1, 2016

Giroux's touch is sometimes too gentle, though, and one wishes he would nudge these characters into more than knowing glances and meaningful silences.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2016

Bittersweet tale of female empowerment about a sheltered young mother summoning the courage to leave her husband and their suffocating religious community.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2015

Delicate, warm and worried, "Felix and Meira" is a coming-of-age film about two grown people stunted by social circumstance.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 17, 2015

This is the sort of movie whose warmth toward its characters is contagious.

| Jun 4, 2015

In spite of an extremely slim outline, Flix et Meira's essence and specificity make for something superior.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 1, 2015

When is an image held for too long? At what point does a shot's duration outlast its emotional information? As ardent and earnest as it is, "Felix and Meira" is a test case.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2015

The movie approaches this mutual attraction tentatively, much as the two characters do. And that's the problem with this well-meaning but ultimately hollow film romance: You don't see it; you don't get it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2015

Though it makes a few missteps in the final reel...overall a sensitive, small-scaled study of two people from very different backgrounds who find love despite all the obstacles society puts in their path.

| Original Score: B- | May 22, 2015

There's a subtext to this love story that seems to say we're all islands, in one way or another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2015

While she skates to the edge of Indie quirk, Giroux also knows how to delight with unexpected observations, keeping things grounded with the three sensitive portrayals at the core of her film.

| Original Score: B | May 16, 2015

Inspecting sensitive areas of heartbreak and empowerment, Giroux finds an ideal way to capture the consequences of forbidden love, adding just the right amount of bittersweet to respect the moment.

| Original Score: B+ | May 15, 2015

Director Maxime Giroux gets good performances from leads Martin Dubreuil and Hadas Yaron...But the romantic mood is asked to cover for too much left unsaid, unasked, and undone.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 14, 2015

"Felix and Meira" raises the question: Are we happiest with a twin spirit - or with a reverse image that completes the picture?

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2015

A viewer can be forgiven for violent eye-rolling.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 30, 2015