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

There's no killer revelation, just a graceful telescoping of past into present and a steadily accumulating dread.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Heartbeat Detector works on so many levels at once that its power is difficult to capture.

| Jul 9, 2008

As driven by linguistics and euphemism as this film is, it's also a slippery and wonderfully acted drama%u2014Michael Clayton with a far more troubling moral landscape.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2008

A searing indictment of corporate responsibility that will intrigue conspiracy theorists.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2008

Though it is in part a stinging commentary on the soullessness of the corporate suit, Nicolas Klotz's film is extremely slow to get on track.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Heartbeat Detector earns its points, arriving at a potent conclusion with a stealth and meticulousness that knocks the wind out of you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Klotz walks a perilous tightrope between profundity and pretension without ever tipping into the chasm.

| Mar 19, 2008

Intriguing, frustrating, exasperating -- the French film Heartbeat Detector succeeds best as a provocation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2008

Director Nicholas Klotz's subtle suspense film Heartbeat Detector comes across like a hybrid of Heart Of Darkness and Michael Clayton, digging into the roots of a psychosis affecting a veteran corporate lackey.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 13, 2008

It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 12, 2008

It has haunted me ever since I saw it, with its implied foreboding for the future. Implied and justified in my opinion, and it may become yours if you choose to catch Heartbeat Detector.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2008

Begins as a dryly limp satire of corporate culture and ends as cruel and unusual punishment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2008

Both pertinent and discomfiting, this sober, well-cast drama remains quietly riveting, despite its 140-minute running time.

Full Review | May 19, 2007