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

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

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

Dumont transforms the tale into a dialectical spectacle...

| Mar 9, 2020

Dumont's sequel to his 2017 musical Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc takes the formative years of a young Jehanne and shakes them until all the fun falls out of them.

| May 21, 2019

This rhetorical stalemate may honor the writings of Catholic poet and essayist Charles Péguy... but it doesn't make for enthralling drama, least of all when the audience knows precisely where it's headed.

| May 19, 2019

Many will find watching the 137-minute movie akin to being burnt at the stake.

| May 18, 2019

Even with a subject as eternally popular as Joan, it's hard to imagine the film making waves with a mainstream audience or bringing new revelations to Dumont's long-term followers.

| May 18, 2019

I found this film ultimately exasperating: not quite funny enough to be funny, or serious enough to be serious, or passionate enough to be about the passion of Joan of Arc.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2019

Bruno Dumont seems perpetually aware of the trap of familiarity, which may be why he indulges in some of his most inscrutable filmmaking.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2019