There's no ostensible plot. Just scenes. And a running gag about the reincarnated soul of the family cat. And not one, but two aggressively unfunny "comedy" seance sequences. An endurance test.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2021

It's the kind of format that works as long as the characters aren't all completely unbearable - which is, alas, not the case here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2021

Not a bad party to get stuck at but one with only one guest worth talking to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2021

French Exit boasts an assured cast but drab direction and lazy writing ensure the characters are never as eccentric, cutting or interesting as the film's tinkling score would have you believe.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2021

"French Exit" isn't without its pleasures; but you watch it dreaming of the movie it might have been.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2021

French Exit has a few grace notes in its final chapter, with Pfeiffer delivering beautifully subtle work as Frances comes to terms with her fate, but it's too little, far too late.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 3, 2021

It's a study of a character unlike any other I can recall, an unorthodox woman who achieves a kind of nobility in her insistence on maintaining her dignity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2021

"French Exit" gets goofy at times, enough so that you'll be charmed or throw up your hands and call it a night.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2021

You might feel sorry, though, for Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, two talented performers who just cannot figure out their characters and flail as a result.

| Apr 2, 2021

Pfeiffer is the only reason not to exit early. She's a delight, the rest falls apart.

| Original Score: C | Apr 2, 2021

A goofy strain of humble humanism manages to keep the self-consciously mannered house of cards from collapsing from its own pretensions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2021

Unfortunately, there's not a lot more to the movie than that. But at least that's something, and in Pfeiffer's hands, it's something good.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 31, 2021

Pfeiffer is luminous, this film isn't.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 31, 2021

Pfeiffer is the best thing about "French Exit" and the only reason to see it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2021

Pfeiffer is flawless in her most delicious performance in years.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2021

The actors rise above the material for the most part, but the film's enigmatic approach to the characters and the situations in which they find themselves will be very much a matter of personal taste.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2021

The film loses sight of where it's heading, but Pfeiffer gives you plenty to watch while it's making up its mind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2021

French Exit is headlined by the sharpest Michelle Pfeiffer we've seen in years, in a role so handsomely form-fitted to her talent, style, and attitude, it's as if the movie had been written with that distinctive curl of her mouth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2021

It's be hard to defend this movie as a good movie but it does sort of have its guilty pleasures.

| Feb 13, 2021

Even when the film as a whole grows a little ungainly, as it fills up with supporting characters who feel more like one-note ideas than actual people, Pfeiffer's steely presence anchors the proceedings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2021