The trifling romantic-melodrama story nonetheless provided an ideal vehicle for the sumptuous mobile-camera style of Max Ophuls...

| Feb 2, 2024

[Ophuls] is renowned for his restless, mobile camera. ... As an active, "oppositional" element, mobility is associated, among other things, with Ophuls's attitude toward Viennese (and German) society ...

| May 12, 2021

For once, Fontaine's anguish seems justified, ensconced in Ophüls' signature tracking shots.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2020

Its layers of interpretation and emotional meaning, combined with its impeccable style, yield an endlessly re-watchable film that changes, as film critic Molly Haskell observes, with time and with you.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 2, 2018

...a women's picture that nonetheless turns on male chauvinism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2013

[Max] Ophuls' first personal project in Hollywood and he injects this exquisitely stylish romantic melodrama with his continental sensibility.

| Feb 19, 2012

A moving weepie woman's picture.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 11, 2012

A weepie like they don't make them like anymore.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2010

One of Hollywood's, and cinema's, grandest and most emotionally satisfying tales of unrequited love and self-sacrifice.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2009

One of the greatest achievements in American film.

| Nov 18, 2008

Remarkable romantic drama.

| Aug 8, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 6/6 | Jan 18, 2008

Does the job of the perfect melodrama and moves the audience to tears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2006

Of all the cinema's fables of doomed love, none is more piercing than this.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2004

Heartbreaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 19, 2004

In the hands of Max Ophuls, the stuff of penultimate melodrama becomes the stuff of exquisite observation and contemplation.

| Oct 1, 2003

Gorgeously mounted Ophuls film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2003

An atmospheric and unsettling mix of European style and Hollywood muscle, this is a beautifully shot and thought-provoking film about lost love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2003