May be the finest thriller/romance hybrid of the new century.

| Original Score: A- | May 4, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2003

Audiard has created one of those rare, commercially released movies that trades in actual, honest-to-god surprise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2002

Having changed into action gear, the picture never looks back, leaving two people who seemed wonderfully unique to do things that are cinematically trite.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2002

This is only Audiard's third film, but it should put him in the top ranks of international filmmakers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2002

Thoughtful, provocative and entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2002

Emmanuelle Devos, veteran of a number of relationship dramas directed by Arnaud Desplechin, is terrific in subtly impressing on us Carla's outsider status.

| Aug 8, 2002

Fascinating and transgressive love story.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2002

A beautifully calibrated drama.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2002

Read My Lips is not a heist film, a thriller, a twisted romance, a film noir or a character study, but a unique concoction that bends all these genres to its vision.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 26, 2002

An inventive, propulsive office thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 26, 2002

There's real visual charge to the filmmaking, and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2002

A sharp, inventive mix of love story and film noir.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2002

Overall, it's the best French thriller since With a Friend Like Harry two years ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2002

Read My Lips is not about deafness, lip-reading, crime or sex, but about that discovery; the plot simply provides the rails on which it rides.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 19, 2002

The powerful success of Read My Lips with such provocative material shows why, after only three films, director/co-writer Jacques Audiard, though little known in this country, belongs in the very top rank of French filmmakers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2002

What gives the film its bounce is that there's no psychological exposition: Audiard has Godard's love of the visual gesture (not to mention his fascination with the way people's lives are altered by their fantasies).

| Jul 18, 2002

This is a finely written, superbly acted offbeat thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2002

The pleasure of Read My Lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string. We're drawn in by the dark luster.

| Jul 11, 2002

The attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and, refreshingly, stays that way.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 11, 2002