Is it fair to ask someone to traumatise (or retraumatise) themselves for the sake of art? Rather boldly, it seems as though Decker is also asking the question of herself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2019

If for no other reason, see it now to be on the ground floor at the unveiling of a new star: Helena Howard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2019

Overwhelming at first, Madeline's Madeline only gains from repeat viewings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2019

The result can be exhausting - and exhilarating, Decker's approach splintered and unpredictable but slowly creating streams of narrative...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2019

It's an immersive and exotic experience. Helena Howard is a revelation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2019

This is cinema most fine.

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 5, 2018

One of the best films of the year, if also one of the hardest to initially get your head around.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 13, 2018

Add another name to the list of talented and charismatic young actresses of color making auspicious debuts of late: Helena Howard, star of director and co-writer Josephine Decker's simultaneously attractive and repellent mindjob.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2018

Decker stretches the medium, creating a film that is at once uncomfortable and brilliant in its examination of intellectual and emotional appropriation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 31, 2018

Decker's visually supple exploration may chase its tail in the second half, but at its best "Madeline's Madeline" shifts perspectives and power dynamics seamlessly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2018

If you dissect what has happened, and take her POV away, it's a far less charming narrative than it seems.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2018

Letting the audience determine the meaning of her aesthetic choices, Decker shows little interest in creating meaning herself.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 29, 2018

Madeline's Madeline is a fascinating, often astonishing experimental work that obliterates the traditional structure of coming-of-age movies, but despite how abstract things may get, the emotion driving it remains crystal-clear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2018

Note to filmmakers everywhere: If you want to depict emotional dissonance through relentlessly swirly cinematography, do it sparingly. If you do it for 90 minutes, as Decker does, the audience isn't stirred. It's queasy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2018

One of the year's headiest, most dazzlingly assured moviegoing experiences.

| Aug 17, 2018

In a long history of art about art that focuses on the forces of toxic masculinity, Madeline's Madeline is the rare film that examines toxic femininity with the same nuance.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 14, 2018

"Madeline's Madeline" mistakes intimacy for honesty, and it mis-assumes that audiences care nearly as much about the creative process as actors and directors do.

| Aug 11, 2018

Decker has real vision. It's exciting to imagine her turning it on something other than her own process.

| Original Score: B | Aug 10, 2018

By pushing to the edges of her own iconoclastic vision, director Josephine Decker touches on universal truths rarely found inside a multiplex.

| Aug 10, 2018

It's a visceral experience... Some viewers may find it too nerve-jangling, and it's hard to blame them. But it's a must-see for risk-takers.

| Aug 10, 2018