Corsini tries to take an even-handed approach to each character by showing how confusion leads to selfishness, but nothing new is added to this predictable genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

Peculiarly powerful, as well as sun-drenched, which always helps.

| Aug 30, 2018

A heady, pertinent cocktail of love, mid-life crisis, and domestic abuse among the bourgeoisie, Catherine Corsini's classy, cerebral soap can feel a little schematic. Happily, KST is on hand with thespian superpowers to save the day.

| Jan 13, 2017

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2013

With a terrific central performance from Kristin Scott Thomas, Leaving is a thoroughly gripping emotional drama that plays like a sun-drenched film noir.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2011

Leaving tells the kind of painful story -- of passion, betrayal, revenge -- we might read about every day in the papers, but it is the cool manner of its telling and an outstanding central performance by Kristin Scott Thomas that sharpen our interest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2011

If Leaving is a romantic parable, it is a dark and depressing one, emphasizing not the sensuality of attraction but rather the obsessive side of romantic behavior. This is mad love for sure, and that is not usually a pretty picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 18, 2011

This alternation between frenzy and calm is the key to Corsini's aesthetic, a strategy the director employs in order to both introduce a modest tension into her otherwise tired material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2011

Even for the routinely terrific Kristin Scott Thomas, the infidelity-themed Leaving is a top-drawer thesping workout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2011

The fact that her children have their lives upended by their mother's yearning for Lopez's low-born, bad-boy loser makes matters both worse and more idiotic than plausible.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 14, 2011

The only reason to see "Leaving'' - and it's not a bad reason at all - is for the sight of Kristin Scott Thomas in a rare happy mood.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2011

[Thomas] remains a mesmerizing mix of carnality and class, and through richer and poorer, she keeps director/co-writer Catherine Corsini's bourgeois fantasy from overheating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2011

As Suzanne's stair-stepping recklessness leads ever downward, from secret rendezvous to public humiliations to thievery and worse, "Leaving" trades sympathy for surprise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2010

If "Leaving" is a story of a broken marriage, what, exactly, went wrong?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 17, 2010

Between the terrific performances and artful cinematography, this is one high-class piece of melodramatic crap.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 8, 2010

This is one of those films that depends entirely on its star, and Thomas mixes sexuality, giddy flirtatiousness, stoic determination and agony in just the right amounts, without ever straining.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 3, 2010

Thomas, bless her, remains compelling throughout. But it gets harder and harder to watch the things "Leaving" forces her to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 3, 2010

Thomas' face, tremulous with desire one second, steely with anger the next, holds the screen every second. But the actress deserves richer material.

| Dec 2, 2010

While "Leaving" is a tragedy, it's also a celebration: of the way a fine actor can tell us a story, barely needing words.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2010

Scott Thomas walks around in jeans and a T-shirt and has that Isabelle Huppert lifelong little girl look. She's good. Pity about the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 2, 2010