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

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

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

"Mood Indigo" feels both overdone and undercooked - a hectic but sketchy tale of oddball romance that slides inexorably into tragedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 8, 2014

It's hard not to take delight in Michel Gondry and his whooshing, bendable universe.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2014

Mood Indigo is an excessive, borderline-unwatchable folly, but it's hard not to admire - and even at moments, revel in - Gondry's demented enthusiasm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2014

High kitsch it may be but Mood Indigo is certainly a welcome antidote to the usual terminal illness melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2014

There's beauty by the sackful in Mood Indigo, but it takes a good while to figure out exactly what it's meant to make us feel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2014

If you enjoy Gondry's brand of homemade art direction then there's plenty to delight early on, but it's all wallpaper.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014

A mad mix of what Tex Avery, Rube Goldberg and the silent-film fantasist Georges Melies might have come up with if they'd put their feverish heads together.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2014

Just the first 10 minutes of Michel Gondry's latest pillowcase of whimsy, "Mood Indigo," has more invention than most of the movies you'll see this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2014

A droll, demented and slightly depressive tale of doomed love.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2014

It's a feast for the eyes. It's an all-you-can-eat buffet for the eyes. But it will not feed you otherwise. Also, there is every chance it will bring you to your knees.

| Jul 31, 2014

The inspiration I kept coming back to, with all the stop-motion absurdity and gleeful surreal trappings, is Pee Wee Herman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014

Gondry untamed is a visual genius.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014

All the loopiness and spaciness might lead you to think you are not making any emotional investment at all in this baffling and barmy romance. Yet its sadness and poignancy somehow appear, popping up like cartoon flowers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2014

It's a dense thatch of superficial brilliance with nothing to hold it up, like Gondry has tried to build a house that's all roof.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2014

No reality is allowed to sit still before being goosed by surreality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2014

The visual pop simply becomes annoying as it truly gets in the way of the storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2014