We’re accustomed to Dumont leapfrogging from one genre to another, but he has seldom attempted so many swerves and shifts as he manages here. France, like the director, makes for a pleasing guessing game.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2023

Doughty Léa Seydoux does her best with this toothless and tedious media satire, but not even two hours of verklempt close-ups can save a movie with so little to say.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 3, 2023

France is watchable, if not subtle, but the picture labours its message with an overstretched running time and an oddly anticlimactic structure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2023

Thanks to her [Léa Seydoux's] performance, France is never less than intriguing. But it’s also extremely hard to get along with – a broadcast-news parable whose sense of purpose keeps fuzzing in and out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2022

Whatever its flaws, this movie provides fans of French star Léa Seydoux with a treat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2022

France, the protagonist and film, is anarchic, unstructured, unstable, sometimes hilarious, sometimes terribly banal, and other times intelligent. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 20, 2022

Léa Seydoux takes us through a hard-bitten contemporary world where truth changes from one minute to the next and tragedy has become an Instagram filter, a godless mystical XXI century. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 14, 2022

France is a bold move but hardly a successful one.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 18, 2022

Dumont's mansplained femme fatale nation. And whether France the country or its failed female metaphor, all dressing literally and no substance politically, and nowhere to go. And fictitious scenario media and moviemaking alike, going along to get along.

| Feb 13, 2022

Something here feels lost in translation. "France" is like trying to complete a puzzle when one of the pieces is missing.

| Original Score: C | Feb 3, 2022

Even after 2 hours and 13 minutes, France's lack of clear vision means all it can offer audiences is a shrug in response.

| Jan 31, 2022

Seydoux is a terrific actor, striking and enigmatic. Unlike Brooks and Dreyer, she suffers in service of a filmmaker who fails her.

| Jan 28, 2022

The entire film her canvas, breaking more walls than a whole demolition crew.

| Jan 28, 2022

[A] tasty and nutritious bouillabaisse of a film...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2022

In France Dumont seems to be likening the news celeb culture to a new religion, with France's garishly decorated apartment, including stained glass wall featuring some mundane pop art pastoral, as our new altar. 


| Jan 27, 2022

Beginning as an edgy satire, "France" becomes much more personal and thoughtful as we follow our protagonist through a crushing breakdown.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 22, 2022

Even when it's outlining its own ideas more through rhetoric than character, "France" keeps us on our toes regarding what's around the corner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2022

A satire of modern media turns into something tragic... Gorgeously shot, wholeheartedly despairing and often extremely funny, in Seydoux's performance, it's a slippery portrait of a modern professional losing control of both surfaces and depths.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 21, 2022

Seydoux takes on the airs and mannerisms of Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Jeanne Moreau, and Catherine Deneuve. Appearing in practically every scene, it wouldn't be a stretch to state the movie would have not worked at all without her as the lead.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2022

Shot in eye-pounding high-def, to bring out the sparkly whiteness of Léa Seydoux's dazzling, erotic teeth, France creates a unique digital anxiety in the viewer that demands full attention.

| Jan 18, 2022