Gondry’s stylistic excesses hurt the film but they don’t hurt the performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Michel Gondry's seventh film is visually inventive but a self-indulgent mess of ideas...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 25, 2021

Gondry's film captures some of the spirit of the novel. It will not be everyone's cup of tea, or even half-cup, but Mood Indigo is empathetic and amusing, and it is a pleasure to watch.

| Feb 12, 2021

The film highlights the things [Michel Gondry] does well, but displays an emptiness I've found more troubling the further his career has gone on.

| Original Score: C | Jul 17, 2020

Given Gondry's filmography, it resembles an extended music video in terms of visuality but as a film, it is easy to quickly lose interest in something that is so chaotic on-screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019

Falls into the trap of artifice over art, neglecting both plot and themes in favour of wild flights of unsubstantiated fancy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018

It's sort of a stoner art film, and I mean that in the best possible way.

| May 23, 2018

Exhilaration suits Gondry far better than doom, even after he switches from color to black-and-white to alter the mood.

| Feb 16, 2018

It's a mildly interesting romance portrayed by two solid actors that is largely overshadowed by its gimmicky effects.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 2, 2017

Michel Gondry's latest endeavor reads like a twisted storybook, weaving realistic tropes with fantastic visions of both the intensely light and the intensely dark.

| Aug 11, 2017

These surfaces, however splendid, are just surfaces, and we fuse no emotional connection to these characters or this story, not even as an allegory.

| Aug 4, 2017

You don't know how tempting it is to review Mood Indigo by simply listing all the visual delights Michel Gondry crams into his newest flight of fancy.

| Jun 30, 2017

Richly told through Gondry's signature visual oddities and whimsy, Mood Indigo posits itself as something raw and intensely original.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 23, 2016

Amuses, and then over-amuses

| Jul 31, 2015

The opening scenes are filled with stop-motion animation, a mouse blowing soap bubbles and other delights; later episodes are dark and ashen. The effect is that of Pee-wee's Playhouse slowly sinking into the dank tarn that claimed Poe's House of Usher.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2014

Mood Indigo is, by any sane criteria, a quixotic, even ill-advised folly. There's a certain overexertion to it all-like Terry Gilliam, Gondry is always compelled to push things that little bit harder when you wish they'd been handled lightly.

| Sep 15, 2014

At a time when so much filmmaking is marked by rampant laziness, it's both refreshing and a little daunting to encounter a film of such nonstop invention and creativity as Mood Indigo.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 3, 2014

Gondry has such an incomparable understanding of the way in which strange and unexpected sights can tickle you. What he sometimes lacks as a filmmaker is the awareness that he can tickle an audience to death.

| Aug 21, 2014

Mood Indigo paints a depressing picture about romance but does so with fabulous, although often-exhausting, style.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2014

It's such a visual stunner you might well forget how humdrum a story it encompasses.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2014