The film will be much clearer to the members of the audience who may already know this story, or have more familiarity with French’s political scenario.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2024

This is a throwback to the kind of conspiracy thriller-cum-courtroom drama (tonally this feels like North Country-meets-The Accused) that Hollywood used to excel at between the 1970s and early 2000s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2024

Despite more than a few bumps along the way, La Syndicaliste still manages to impress thanks to Huppert’s stoic performance.

| Aug 14, 2024

...it shows how governments increasingly act like big corporations, crafting decisions and policies under a veil of secrecy, putting capital before community.

| Jul 20, 2024

The tale of this real-life whistleblower is fascinating and harrowing. While it could have been directed with more flair, Isabelle Huppert is terrific, as usual, giving the character her all alongside other fine performances

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2024

A provocative and at times disturbing drawn-from-life drama that is given extra power by an outstanding performance by Isabelle Huppert.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 14, 2024

There might be a great film in this material, but Kearney and her colleagues are probably too bound to non-disclosure agreements to tell it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2023

Slickly assembled with a yet another riveting performance by Isabelle Huppert at its centre, this French dramatic thriller is too talky and detailed to properly pull the audience in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2023

This is the well-told story of a whistleblower who was unable to combat the steamroller coming for her.

| Dec 1, 2023

A powerfully understated performance by the legendary Isabelle Huppert boosts this uneven French procedural drama.

| Dec 1, 2023

It’s not exactly subtle about what it wants to say, but its forwardness actually plays into the narrative quite effectively. After all, it’s not that often the film’s most macabre moments are centered around gynecological stirrups.

| Dec 1, 2023

La Syndicaliste is ... a fairly nuanced piece of filmmaking about the abuse of power and women on a personal and systemic level.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2023

Yes, its rather reserved form may draw some television-movie comparisons, but as a complicated story told succinctly and with nary a trace of sentimentality, it’s an admirable film.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 1, 2023

It harkens back to an era of these types of films where “success” gradually becomes less about beating the system than simply staying alive, and suggests every horrid tactic is still fair play when you challenge something too large.

| Dec 1, 2023

Sometimes the best reason to watch a movie is because Isabelle Huppert is in it.

| Nov 30, 2023

“La Syndicaliste” might have benefitted from a bit more expansiveness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2023

A provocative and compelling psychological thriller with a heartfelt performance by Isabelle Huppert.

| Nov 28, 2023

A difficult and complex situation is made watchable partly due to its genuinely dramatic elements and even more by giving the story a warts-and-all heroine who is both courageous and truly relatable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2023

Huppert, who can convey an ocean of feeling with the twitch of an eyebrow, embodies this unassuming heroism so effectively that you hardly notice that a much bigger story has been allowed to become a blur.

| Sep 21, 2023

[La Syndicaliste] is an effective judicial political thriller interpreted with solvency by Isabelle Huppert, an expert in enduring calmly and coldly the most humiliating aggressions without betraying the real emotional impact... [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2023