Plays like a passionate, harrowing confession.

| Oct 8, 2012

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

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

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

For all its mess and romantic excess, Pola X has enough fireworks to keep you in your seat. When it's over, you'll know you've had an experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

If Pola X is a failure, it is a more stimulating failure than most successful films.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Carax, with Pola X, has become a parody of himself with a self-indulgent, overreaching style that many viewers will find a struggle to watch -- provided they can contain their contempt for pretentiousness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Faithful readers will know I have an affection for raving lunatics and am grateful for films that break free of the dismal bonds of formula to cartwheel into overwrought passionate excess.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000