Few ingredients, a lot to say, and only with images. Camaraderie, humanity, cruelty, capitalism, men. All of that without giving mediocre messages. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 5, 2024

An intimate, romantic, tender and humanist story... [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2022

With beautifully framed and eye-catching composition, Kaurismäki carves out an optimistic and empathetic tale about humanity doing the right thing.

| Original Score: 8.3/10 | Mar 13, 2021

Here is the sunniest film I've seen by Aki Kaurismaki, and he reveals a lot of sunshine inside for a director whose world is usually filled with deadpan losers.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 7, 2020

It's pure Kaurismäki, a graceful, deeply humanist work, and very tough despite its limpid beauty...

| Aug 27, 2019

This offbeat film is a crowd-pleaser.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Kaurismäki's Le Havre is simply unmissable, a cine-literate treat that's somehow simultaneously archaic and contemporary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2019

Le Havre is brought to life by its raw, hopeful humanity; it feels close and real despite its deliberate distance.

| Jul 9, 2018

A great way to start your weekend. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2018

"Le Havre" is far less measured, but it builds toward a lovely double ending.

| Mar 5, 2018

Le Havre charmingly renews the old-fashioned belief in an ethic among the urban poor, one that sometimes rises to the challenge of mutual help across lines of race and nation. This sense of solidarity even crosses lines of cultural ambition.

| Jan 9, 2018

It is not a set of moves within and against the system writ large; it zeroes in on individuals, frames them, looks into their eyes, forges space and community with them, in neighborhoods, through moments.

| Nov 27, 2017

Plays less like a snapshot of Europe wrestling with the realities of immigration and more like a fantasy about how Kaurismaki wishes every immigrant's story would play out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2016

"Le Havre" is easily the most humanist, generous and hopeful movie in recent memory.

| Oct 7, 2015

Overly sentimental but warmhearted Marxist message pic.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 4, 2013

We are so held by the film's impact that its ending, surprise or not, is like a bonus.

| Jun 19, 2013

Kaurismki returns with another of his deadpan comedies, reminiscent of the great silent comedians, though this one is arguably one of his gentlest as well.

| Aug 22, 2012

Le Havre is presented as an oasis of happy inclusiveness within a regimented, uniformed, legislated and suspicious world at large; to spend time here is a pleasure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2012

Kaurismki turns his affectionate, whimsical eye on the impoverished but generous folk of a run-down, waterfront community in the Normandy port of Le Havre.

| Apr 7, 2012

The result is both charming and purposeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2012