Noé is a director who understands how to cojur up a reaction from the audience, and he understands the power of film. His films aren't always the easiest or the most enjoyable to watch, but I can appreciate the work that has gone into creating them.

| Oct 11, 2024

Noé, with a disruptive aesthetic, evokes explicit images to point out a text about the irreversibility of time and moral actions, but whose narrative often frequents places that lose the pulse in its model of urban transgression. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 10, 2024

As Irréversible works its way back to the beginning, the frame stabilises. But this proves illusory, forcing viewers to witness with harrowing clarity a descent into another underworld...

| Nov 9, 2023

An important film which pushes past exploitation cinema to become something altogether more profound. There’s no closure, no answers, and only an uneasy happiness about to come apart at the seams.

| Jun 18, 2023

The story barely contains a plot, but "Irréversible" made its name on its visceral imagery and disorientation.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 10, 2023

One of the most provocative, controversial movies of the 21st century.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 8, 2022

A pirouetting monster of angst.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Aug 22, 2021

A brutal exercise in form that need not be ignored. Noé is a modern auteur, no matter what you think of his ideas.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 2, 2019

It is telling that No, a filmmaker ordinarily enamored by the grueling underbelly of human behavior, can effectively contrast the nihilism of the climactic events with an almost hopeful tone overlaying the story's origins.

| Oct 30, 2017

No weaves together the off-putting elements into something that sears itself permanently in the memory.

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

Contains crippling, extended acts of sexual violence and general inhumanity, yet, under the bleeding rawness of it all, was a film of brilliant technical achievement and unrivaled, unrelenting ferocity.

| Original Score: A | Dec 28, 2009

The lurid gimmick of a barking sideshow host.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 27, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Noe is a confrontational master, no question.

| Original Score: A | Sep 24, 2007

The film is almost unwatchable at the beginning, but the chaos and horror of the swinging camera stabilizes, the film becomes more structured and horrifying long after the cinematic devices calm down.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 30, 2006

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

Me? I'm going to go watch "The Brady Bunch" to wash these images out of mind. And, I'm going to withstand the fury of those who decide I'm a squeamish wimp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2006

| Original Score: 0/5 | Dec 6, 2005