The film has a big heart sometimes for the victims, and yet the deaths are so sadistic and so brutal... It didn't have the empathy that I thought it should have.

| Sep 24, 2019

Variously gorgeous, ethereal, artful and tacky, both Anne's film and Gonzalez's are sustained by a throbbing sexual energy, aided by French electronic act M83's twinkling, club‑inspired score.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2019

Witness the encomia extended by some to Yann Gonzalez's Knife+Heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2019

a luridly coloured, transgressively queered piece of self-conscious schlock where cutting is the business of lovesick killers as much as filmmakers - and both cut right to the heart.

| Jul 5, 2019

It's an oddly compelling thriller that may just presage bigger and better things from its maker.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2019

It's postmodernism at its finest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2019

"Knife+Heart" is a mood piece that draws blood.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 5, 2019

Gonzalez may goof on this often-ridiculous world - I mean, how could he not? - but he does so from a place of real respect and admiration.

| Apr 4, 2019

It feels like a giallo take on "Phantom of the Paradise," with heavy influences from "Peeping Tom" and Todd Haynes' 1991 feature debut, "Poison." This magical, erotic, disco-tinged horror-thriller is like cinematic candy.

| Mar 22, 2019

A satisfying, unsentimental psychodrama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2019

The audience for "Knife + Heart" is narrow, but I suspect it'll be deep.

| Mar 14, 2019

Gonzalez contains his love of screen excess with a deliberation that never feels contrived or cheap.

| Mar 14, 2019

The film quickly settles into a holding pattern of repetitive porno-movie hijinks and increasingly listless murder scenes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 12, 2019

Both vicious and joyful, nostalgic and distinctly contemporary, Knife+Heart is above all else unapologetic in the multiple excesses that mark this defiant project of queer genre filmmaking.

| Mar 6, 2019

I was similarly charmed by the film's embrace of both the genre's strengths and weaknesses, down to the voice-over in the last five minutes of the movie explaining what the hell you just saw.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2018

Gonzalez fails to go deep.

| Jul 4, 2018

It's the kind of film you could more readily imagine spooled up on the screen of a dingy, rundown red light district theater than in Cannes' lavish Lumiere Theatre. It's all part of its scrappy charm.

| Original Score: B- | May 18, 2018

Viewers that get into the mood -- and definitely those who were seduced by You and the Night -- will find plenty to love here.

| Original Score: B- | May 18, 2018

Gonzalez has a feel for the exoticism and occult lure and lore of this world. But it is trying very hard for something more, some enigma that exists above and beyond it all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2018

Gnarly as it can be at times, "Knife + Heart" is above all an unabashedly queer, affectionately comedic look at the pursuit of art in the unlikeliest of places.

| May 18, 2018