Two hours of French naval-gazing about smoking, drinking, complaining...

| Oct 24, 2019

On balance, writer and director Assayas just about pulls it off: the film is uneven, certainly, but the fascinating, flawed characters reel us in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2019

It sounds farcical, but it's also a serious work from the writer-director Olivier Assayas and his key performers that interrogates the nature of literary value today through the words of uncommonly rounded and deeply appealing characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Non-Fiction feels breezy, but this is a film in which, on multiple fronts, appearances don't tell the whole story.

| Oct 18, 2019

[Olivier] Assayas's innate interest in character prevents it from being dry or dusty.

| Oct 17, 2019

A meal made up of nothing but appetisers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2019

Olivier Assayas is treading water with this amiable but self-indulgent and finally negligible movie about intrigue and adulterous goings-on in the publishing world of Paris.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2019

It's maybe not going to sit near the top of the director's canon, but it's a nice addition to it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2019

Writer-director Olivier Assayas goes looking for one real thing amid a group of French sophisticates who deal in artifice, both as a way of making a living and (with one possible exception) as a way of life.

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

For all the ambitious and abstract philosophical ideas that it contends with, Non-Fiction is a film that describes the world of here and now, by-to paraphrase a line of dialogue from a dinner party-seeking certainties during these uncertain times.

| Jun 5, 2019

In barely disguised code, "Non-Fiction" operates as a wry analysis of Assayas' chosen profession as filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

The cast finesses Assayas's thickets of talk and double-talk with ease, but it's Binoche who's the heart of "Non-Fiction."

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2019

"Is it good?" is a question repeatedly asked throughout "Non-Fiction." When it comes to the myriad subjects at hand, the debate rages on. As for the movie itself, the answer is a resounding yes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 23, 2019

It is that very denseness of thought, and the lovely ways that these themes are examined, that make the film shine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2019

One scene just flows into the next in such a natural way that it seems that life is unfolding as it always does, but that, for some reason, real life is suddenly interesting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2019

This is parody... As such, it's very funny and not without winsome affection for its hyperverbal, overprivileged characters.

| May 9, 2019

"Non-Fiction" is an enticing blend of the comic and the serious, a smart and sassy examination of the way we live now.

| May 9, 2019

Similar to his last film, Personal Shopper, Non-Fiction isn't awful. It's just aloof, sterile and unimpressive. Audiences and fans looking for another emotionally-charged [Olivier] Assayas film will just have to wait.

| May 3, 2019

Is the digital revolution the endgame for literacy? Olivier Assayas asks all the right questions in the form of an erotic romp. Dig in. It's a bonbon spiked with wit and malice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2019

Non-Fiction is a mostly delightful, occasionally exhaustingly word-drunk comedy of manners larded with giddy farce.

| May 2, 2019