A short and flawless wonder.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 3, 2022

Hypnotically intense and lucid...

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2022

At first one may be impressed by the mystery surrounding these characters, until one realises that they are only mysterious because they are unable to create their own destinies.

| Jan 11, 2020

The movie, above all, affirms the miracle of redemptive love and its price in humility and unconditional surrender.

| Mar 4, 2019

A picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar.

| Mar 5, 2013

A marvel of poise and circumspect emotion from French auteur Robert Bresson.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2013

It is, at base, about self-fulfilment and redemption through love -- a common enough idea in films. But this 1959 epic has seldom been equalled as a philosophical treatise on the subject.

| Mar 5, 2013

Robert Bresson made this short electrifying study in 1959; it's one of his greatest and purest films, full of hushed transgression and sudden grace.

| Mar 5, 2013

Bresson choreographs the complex techniques of lifting wallets and watches with such precision that one seems to be watching a kind of surreptitious ballet.

| Mar 5, 2013

French director Robert Bresson used his nonactors only once and orchestrated every gesture and glance; the performances that resulted are both mesmerizing and suffused with mystery.

| Original Score: A | Feb 27, 2007

Bresson examines actions but offers little attention to motives, an approach that here seems to suggest that Michel's choices may be a mystery even to himself.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 11, 2006

Bresson's goals were deep; to sweep away the dross of expectation and viewing conventions by means of a purified cinema. At times in this thief's journal his visual discourse touches the sublime.

| Feb 9, 2006

Every image in Pickpocket evokes the director's idea of the soul in transition.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 10, 2005

Ultimately inexplicable, this concentrated, elliptical, economical movie is an experience that never loses its strangeness.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2005

There is incredible buried passion in a Bresson film, but he doesn't find it necessary to express it. Also great tension and excitement, tightly reined in.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000