Demands effort in mental concentration to remember whether you saw it or dreamt it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 11, 2022

The film can feel slight, unmoored, and absent of something insightful to say about what this girl's act means for her or contemporary France.

| Jan 22, 2020

Unfortunately, the Bleistein plot breaks the trajectory of Jeanne's story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 12, 2019

There is a lot to process here, and a film of ideas is always commendable, and even if its parts don't always add up, Téchiné imbues it with a wise and lyrical grace.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Baloney. The movie is made up of unfulfilled possibilities. Some of the scenes are interesting, but a film with a solid story it is not.

| Jan 13, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 20, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

We don't come close to understanding Jeanne's very particular choice of fabricated victimization, and Tchin, erring too much on the side of enigma, doesn't seem to, either.

| Sep 10, 2010

Understated but involving, The Girl On The Train tells a very personal and specific story that resonates with wider insight into the state of modern France.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2010

It's an interesting approach, avoiding didactic hand-wringing in favour of elliptical character drama...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2010

Andr Tchin's spellbinding storytelling glosses over the issue somewhat, but never deplorably so.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2010

A rare disappointment from Andr Tchin...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2010

The film doesn't quite solve the puzzle -- why the girl did it -- but it doodles intriguing equations and theories on the blackboard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2010

The film's complex political and social themes are frustratingly simplified, reducing events to bare-bones implausibility and making empathy hard despite the impressively subtle performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2010

The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2010

The French-made drama is too aloof and measured, even when things should get more heated and emotional.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2010

Techine once again displays a masterful control ofall aspects of his movie, a typically rich character study.

| May 11, 2010

milie Dequenne projects little in the lead; neither her passion nor her foolhardy decision to draw attention by claiming the mantle of victimhood convinces.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 29, 2010

A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2010

Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2010