Its numerous ancillary characters are so closely observed that even those without speaking parts register as people, in a manner that blurs the line between strangeness and intimacy.

| Jul 2, 2022

I've never longed for traffic as I did after this film.

| Dec 8, 2021

The slightness of the piece is meant as something of a provocation: "This is life, it's found in small moments, not big moments." Fine, but then one ought not feel obliged to have a big response either.

| Feb 16, 2021

I find this romantic drama by director Claire Denis subtle and somewhat sensual. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 17, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2005

a most rewarding cinematic journey

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 30, 2004

| Original Score: B | Aug 7, 2004

There's something about Denis's filmmaking style that is deeply affecting.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2004

[Denis] creates so many dazzling little moments that she turns what might have been something slight and forgettable into something occasionally magical.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 17, 2003

The film's wonderful final scene is a generous pay-off.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2003

...if you go with the ebb and flow, Friday Night can be as intoxicating as a good cocktail.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2003

It will make you long for the weekend...a picture that seems to ramble its way through an essentially tepid little anecdote.

| Original Score: D | Oct 5, 2003

Beautiful and moody, fiercely intelligent and astoundingly chilly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2003

I would not want to spend my Friday Night watching this Friday Night. It's bad enough to sit through it on Wednesday morning.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 3, 2003

Might make action fans pull their hair out.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 2, 2003

Denis imbues the simple details of a one-night stand with powerful eroticism and humane understanding.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2003

Friday Night never makes the leap from a little fantasy about sex with a stranger to a larger story about a woman settling down for life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 27, 2003