"Look at Me" is a wholesome work of fully rounded dramaturgy that spins on a gyroscope of sustained emotional momentum.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 8, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Examines a variety of questions, such as superficiality versus substance, materialism versus self-worth, and taking advantage of others versus forming sincere relationships.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Sadly, too much focus is spent on showing character traits that any kind of coherent story or compassion for characters is destroyed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Forces the audience to ride the waves of some complicated relationships without having a built-in hero or heroine for which to root.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 19, 2005

a sharp illustration of how it feels to resent someone you know you're supposed to love.

| Aug 5, 2005

Agnès Jaoui's second film is the type of light, Foucauldian romantic comedy that only the French can make.

| Jun 21, 2005

(...) Una comedia humana que incluso depara, según la sensibilidad de cada uno, varias notas de emoción.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 10, 2005

The work of a wry, generous filmmaker who wants to sympathize with even her most self-centered characters...

Full Review | Original Score: '3/4' | May 27, 2005

A biting and insightful tale of life in Parisian literary circles, and how celebrity and ambition can send ripples through relationships.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 27, 2005

Bacri and Jaoui happens to have a soft spot for their countrymen, which results in a warm, funny movie for us to like, too.

| Original Score: B | May 26, 2005

Perhaps because she is also an actress, Jaoui understands motivation and interaction, and, with co-star Jean-Pierre Bacri, who plays the father, creates characters of substance and dimension out of scraps of human weakness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2005

The pleasure of the film, as in many French films from Renoir to Rohmer, is in the exactitude of observation, the accuracy of the portrait and the elegance of the writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 26, 2005

Jaoui is something of a romantic, yes, but she's also a bit of a cynic - or at least an amused realist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2005

Although little about the story seems surprising or spontaneous, the film's delights lie in its acute observation of the characters and their interactions.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2005

Both an implicit protest against the blindness of power and an equally fervent protest against the acquiescence of men and women who are too weak or too compromised to stand up for themselves -- that is, most people.

Full Review | May 21, 2005

Flawlessly acted and meticulously observed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2005

...does more than flatter its audience's sense of taste.

Full Review | Original Score: A | May 20, 2005

But add up these formidable parts and all you get is still a distant story of wealthy and miserable French literati stewing in their own self-contempt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2005