It is a beautiful and daring French-language film about the enduring power of love that trespasses the boundaries of societal conventions.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Dolan's films -- which have a touch of Pedro Almodóvar and Wong Kar-wai -- are always exaggerated, capricious, arbitrary, showy, but also, beautiful, intense, and unafraid of being ridiculed. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2023

It's a film that asks difficult questions, tells a meaningful story, and adds Dolan's unique artistic sensibility.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

A beautiful gateau of a film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Dolan's latest feature, the French language Laurence Anyways, proves this is a filmmaker able to breathe cinematic invention and beauty into every frame.

| Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2017

A stylish and immodest transgender melodrama.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 13, 2016

Too much music. Too much colour. Too much movie. But a good movie.

| Original Score: 74/100 | Jul 16, 2014

Suzanne Clement gives one of those legendary, no-holds-barred performances that announces the arrival of a sensational new screen presence.

| Jun 27, 2014

...a symphony of sound and image, an epic account of a dynamic and complicated relationship, and one of the most powerful and affecting love stories I've seen on film in quite some time.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 2, 2014

Drenching melodrama, reckless, ravishing. Dolan's style, to some, may seem overheated, flamboyant, baroque, immature, indulgent, extravagant, but it is what it is and what it is, at his keenest moments, is fabulous.

| Apr 7, 2014

It's bold, brash, and frequently successful, but also repetitive and ultimately arduous. There simply isn't enough story here to justify the inflated running time and, for many, Laurence Anyways will wear out its welcome.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013

It's far longer than it needs to be. But it's still an absorbing chronicle of a romance in which one partner happens to be transsexual.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 30, 2013

"Laurence Anyways" is a formidable display of French Canadian director Xavier Dolan's prodigious talents, but also a case study of a young talent still finding his way to greatness.He'll get there one day, soon, but this film doesn't quite do it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2013

For every sublime moment the movie has to offer, there's a cinematic dead zone of indulgence that wipes it away, generating a frustrating, occasionally intolerable sit.

| Original Score: C | Oct 3, 2013

Lushly romantic and daringly original.

| Sep 12, 2013

Rarely have such issues been explored on screen with such intimacy and complexity, even if some of the quirky details in Dolan's epic feels more unfocused than profound.

| Jul 22, 2013

It's all too much, really, including its 21/2-hour-plus running time. But it's also engrossing, an ultimately tender story of a transsexual's transformation over 10 years and its effect on him and the people around him.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2013

Laurence Anyways has the feel of a personal project that got away from Dolan, full of raw, rough-edged drama in desperate need of discipline and refinement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2013

One can't help but feel that Dolan & Co. go into a bit too much detail re: the changes faced by Laurence...Nonetheless, there has not been as exhaustive (exhausting?) a look into the Trans(gender) experience before.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 6, 2013

It evidences a hoarder's bond to moments of extravagantly photographed feeling -- no matter that it's often the same feelings being communicated, over and over.

| Original Score: C | Jul 4, 2013