Full Time (À Plein Temps) is nothing like a thriller or a horror movie, and yet it must rank among the most tense and uncomfortable films I have ever seen. Every second feels like walking on eggshells.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 11, 2024

The result is a propulsive depiction of working life that will no doubt prove gnawingly familiar to many viewers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2024

It’s a film that pretty much anyone tasked with caring for children can click in to an empathize with.

| Jan 14, 2024

Sometimes the only way to keep going is to keep going.

| Aug 7, 2023

Full Time is an angry indictment of the current state of affairs and an ode to the sacrifices parents make for their children.

| Jul 24, 2023

A realistic drama about a single mother coping with a possible job change amidst a transit strike.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2023

While it may have some slight problems as everything is going downhill for Julie, the film always remains captivating and relatable.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 19, 2023

Designed to provoke anxiety, Full Time is more gripping than most of the recent thrillers I’ve seen lately.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2023

Calamy’s performance, excellent camerawork, and the visceral portrait of France's economic unrest make Full Time well worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2023

... An unsurprising but tightly paced bit of social realism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2023

Full Time goes further in its quest for realism than anything ever released by the Dardenne brothers or Britain’s purveyor of miserabilist social realism, Ken Loach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2023

It’s such an authentic and relatable film – so meticulously observed, in fact, that to be perfectly honest, I assumed it had been made by a woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2023

That’s the stress-inducing nightmare of Full Time, a nail-biting domestic thriller that dramatises the mundane horrors of commuting as a means of exposing the precarity of the lower-middle class.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2023

It's a Ken Loach-like grim character study of a resilient female worker.

| Original Score: B | Mar 20, 2023

Full Time never loses the focus of what it is, which is one of the best thrillers of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2023

Laure Calamy gives a one-woman show performance as she is front and center for nearly every frame of the film. The actor and her character hold your attention throughout

| Original Score: B | Mar 16, 2023

Aided by Victor Seguin’s fluid, constantly moving camera and Irène Drésel’s anxiety inducing synth score, “Full Time” is a nerve-shredding experience until the joyful, climactic sigh of relief the filmmaker finally allows both Julie and his audience.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 11, 2023

This relentless, heart-in-your-throat, ticking-clock thriller about precarious single-motherhood could not be more timely or more intimate. As real, and as recognizably stressful, as the genre gets.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 3, 2023

It is so anxiety-inducing, but so well made and [Laure Calamy's] performance is so good.

| Mar 3, 2023

An almost the perfect example of a film I admire but did not enjoy at all... [Laure Calamy] carries this whole thing on her shoulders.

| Mar 3, 2023