If [Bruno] Dumont's feminist aims weren't clear before, Joan's resistance to doubt and intimidation makes her the most powerful figure in the film, even as that power gets turned against her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2021

Whatever we expect, this film isn't giving it to us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2021

For Dumont, revisionist history -- and revisionist filmmaking -- is not a matter of do-over. It's about starting over and for reasons that we must heed.

| Nov 20, 2020

Not for everyone, but those seeking a battle against the English staged in the medium of horse choreography will not be disappointed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2020

I don't think I can recommend Joan of Arc to anybody...

| Jun 25, 2020

Though his Joan of Arc films feel like preparatory experiments for the masterpiece he has yet to deliver, they suffice as semi-whimsical works of scathing criticism and surprising compassion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2020

The script proceeds through rudimentary moments that are not helped by the bloated 137-minute runtime. Even though the visuals do carry the film in moments, it's simply not enough when the moments are drawn out into insignificance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2020

It's unlikely you'll have seen a film quite like it.

| Jun 16, 2020

Joan of Arc ...still finds ways to be odd and unusual in the way it tells this exceedingly familiar story of the French saint.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2020

relying on agonizing close-ups of Maria Falconetti as Joan, [director Carl Theodor] Dreyer mined the trial records of Jeanne d'Arc to present a moving tribute.

| Jun 8, 2020

Dumont's self-conscious approach drains the film of emotional impact and spiritual depth, turning it into little more than stylized pageantry

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2020

So much of the film's purpose and impact rest on [Prudhomme's] face -- youthful, stoic, haunted...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2020

Joan of Arc is more likely to elicit head-scratching over its distracting quirks than applause at its artistic daring.

| Original Score: C | May 28, 2020

Gently but shrewdly absurdist...its selling point is that it is unusual, at times even Lynchian, in its measured approach to retelling familiar history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2020

But though it has a silly sense of humor, Joan Of Arc lacks a sense of surprise-something that can't be said of other recent Dumont projects.

| Original Score: C+ | May 21, 2020

Poor Joan has been suffering through the cinema ever since Carl Theodore Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc in 1928, and Prudhomme's stern, battle-ready glare gives it fresh power.

| Original Score: B- | May 21, 2020

If you find his exploration and experiment endearing and noble, you are in the right place. If not, you will be bored to death.

| May 21, 2020

It's perhaps easy to apprehend Dumont's approach with a "What's this oddball up to now?" smirk. But if Dumont is joking at all, it's a form of what used to be called "kidding on the square."

| May 21, 2020

Both sections of the film have a unique tone, the young Joan of Arc of serious and spiritual intent, those who debate her frequently appearing as if they've wandered in from a Monty Python film.

| Original Score: B | May 20, 2020

Dumont transforms the tale into a dialectical spectacle...

| Mar 9, 2020