A combination of rollicking, darkly delicious entertainment and brilliantly rendered character study, this has the making of a modern classic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 18, 2024

May December is not just a skilful satire of suburban propriety; it’s a unique and uncanny affair about the nature of performance itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2024

Complex, intelligent, thought-provoking filmmakers are back in fashion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2024

Both performances are built out of distancing devices, and the whole film is shot through with camp irony, though the effect, as usual with Haynes, is more conceptual than outright funny.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2024

This is a thoughtful and compassionate movie, beautifully portrayed, when it could have been something very different.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2024

The film is so deft in its footing... I thought it was terrific.

| Dec 29, 2023

Alternately darkly funny and profoundly sad, May December feels like a movie only Haynes could have made — and made so masterfully.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 29, 2023

It is at once a film of immense complexity and immense clarity.

| Dec 14, 2023

Todd Haynes is a filmmaker who, on top of telling a story about vulnerable people and their digressions, tells the story about the predatory ways we consume those narratives, and the boundaries we cross when creating those narratives.

| Dec 11, 2023

Todd Haynes’s latest is a brilliant ode to female toxicity that begins at a place of camp and ends at one that’s closer to horror.

| Dec 9, 2023

Film’s heart and soul belong to Charles Melton as Moore’s husband, some 30 years her junior and forever trapped in the shadow of scandal...

| Dec 7, 2023

All the acting here is extraordinary, but there’s a reason why Charles Melton has been picking some early awards hardware for his role as Joe.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2023

Haynes has made a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a film with a uniquely twisted core. Beneath the droll portrait of an actor’s obsession with her muse is an unsettling tale of what happens when people refuse to tell the truth.

| Dec 1, 2023

It gets just so juicy and wrong and thrilling in darkly funny ways.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 1, 2023

Really tightly put together, and and just so well acted.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 1, 2023

That Haynes gets at these characters in a way that Elizabeth only hopes to, is what makes the film so wickedly entertaining.

| Dec 1, 2023

There are instances when it seems as if you’re watching two overlaid movies: the original and its critique, a doubling that works nicely in “May December,” which soon becomes a labyrinthine hall of mirrors.

| Nov 30, 2023

It's Haynes' most accessible work of his career, and it's one of the year's best movies. It's a knockout in May, December, or anytime in between.

| Original Score: A | Nov 29, 2023

Moore and Portman inject the movie with wattage, dramatic heft, and a push-pull dynamic associated with immovable objects and irresistible forces. Melton gives May December its slow-burn tragedy. It’s why the film wounds the way it does.

| Nov 29, 2023

A brilliant building and layering of characters.

| Nov 29, 2023