As one expects from this filmmaker, 'Pola X' is offbeat in the extreme.

| Nov 21, 2013

Carax is a visual director and "Pola X" works best when he uses his locales and set design to excellent effect,

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 14, 2013

beautiful to look at and listen to but it has a cold heart.

| Original Score: C | Feb 13, 2013

Plays like a passionate, harrowing confession.

| Oct 8, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

I think, in the long run, it will stand up as one of the most outstanding and memorable films of the year.

| May 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2002

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 5, 2002

Grand and poetic and overcooked, which I'm sure Melville would have been proud of.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2001

It works on several levels of meaning and panache, yet it undoubtedly will leave behind those unable to go along with its unabashed headiness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Audacious but not completely successful, Pola X transports Melville's story to contemporary France.

| Feb 14, 2001

Excessive in every way, Pola X flounders and drowns in its own melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

IIt is a precious film, though parts of it may not be pleasing or decipherable.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

The filmmaker may have written 10 drafts, but there's only one Carax, uncompromisingly ambiguous.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

The images are incredible; they transpire with a lyrical, hallucinatory, and dramatically powerful resonance.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000