The approach taken by director Ira Sachs is utterly sincere and so utterly humourless, though the performances are quietly compelling...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2021

Even within the breezy parameters of the travelogue movie genre (think Eat Pray Love or Under the Tuscan Sun), this sun-kissed melodrama is decidedly lacking in drive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2021

It has its pleasures but after the nuance and emotional hits of Love Is Strange and Little Men, Frankie is a disappointment. Not even la Reine, Isabelle Huppert, can elevate this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2021

A tad disappointing from Sachs, whose characters usually have more humour, honesty and heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2021

Half the cast come to the rescue, guaranteeing, at least, a pleasant time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2021

Taking a role designed to collapse the divide between performer and character as opportunity to uncover new levels on naturalism, Huppert offers another beautifully modulated turn in a part that is primarily reactive.

| Feb 12, 2020

The ensemble cast is uniformly first-rate, but Sachs' moribund movie is a slog.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2019

Sachs manages this day in the life without cumbersome exposition thanks to the texture of this casting, all while keeping the disparate concerns of three generations moving.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2019

It's a little too late but it's also surpassingly lovely: an aching frame around the human muddle before we go home for good.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2019

Alas, as whole, Frankie plays like one of Woody Allen's lesser, European-set films...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2019

[The] performances feel lived in, like they're actually friends meeting up for the fist time in years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2019

"Frankie" never takes a risk, never explores the characters' problems in any meaningful way; it feels all surface.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2019

It's essentially a-walk and-talk... They walk and they talk, everybody looks lovely, and the cheese even looks like it tastes good.

| Oct 28, 2019

I feel like we've all seen this film [before], but they're all kind of enjoyable, like having a nice glass of rosé on a beautiful day.

| Oct 28, 2019

[T]hanks to a superb cast and a welcome strain of comedic energy, "Frankie" turns out to be more than a pretty travelogue with melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2019

[Sachs's] insistent pictorial sensibility reveals its purpose and its power in a crescendo of visionary wonder, in a matched pair of concluding sequences.

| Oct 25, 2019

A lovely if muted experience, in which moments of silence and tranquility communicate as much as the naturalistic dialogue.

| Oct 25, 2019

Sachs builds a physical world so relentlessly clean, classy, and gorgeous it teeters on the edge of travelogue. But he fails to people it with characters we could care much for or about, so busy are they shilling for banal observations on life.

| Oct 24, 2019

[A] film that whisks us away, showcases such a talented and eclectic array of performers, and reconfirms a singular filmmaker's affecting artistry.

| Oct 24, 2019

Frankie, for all of its refusal to give into any kind of traditional narrative satisfaction, is rife with terrific little moments.

| Oct 24, 2019