While it doesn’t entirely work, the film is as fearless and in-your-face as its formidable central character.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2023

[Julie Ledru] brings to the role the sad eyes of Jeanne Moreau, the swaggering insouciance of Béatrice Dalle and the saddle skills of Evel Knievel. The film around her, though, has frequent dramatic lapses...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2023

A very difficult film, but a slice of life I didn't know before.

| Mar 25, 2023

“Rodeo” takes its blind corners and open roads with plenty of ferocity, but also a necessary compassion for the searching force of nature at its center.

| Mar 24, 2023

Rodeo is engaging and gritty, but what makes the whole film hold together overall is Ledru.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2023

There are undercurrents of danger, desire, and unpredictability in Rodeo even beyond the risks of street racing, with much of it rising from the combined fierceness and vulnerability of Julie Ledru’s character and performance.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 21, 2023

Rodeo looks like a documentary but finally makes a reckless swerve toward the mythic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2023

For the most part the scattered script careens around various lackluster intrigues...

| Mar 16, 2023

All surface, all present tense, all too-cool-to-be-anything-but-French-vérité gestures.

| Jun 1, 2022

Raw and gritty, there is a lot about Rodeo that works. Ledru is an enticing first-timer whose constant scowl and determination aid in her ability to navigate the B-Moore boys...

| May 27, 2022

Rodeo is a combustible fusion of crime story, character study and existential mystery, a tale of celebration and lament, and it announces the arrival of a gifted and adventurous filmmaker.

| May 25, 2022

Rodeo” is a heart-pounding, wholly unique ride, punctuated by incredible stunt work from Ledru and the rest of the cast and possessed by a kinetic, high-energy drive.

| Original Score: A- | May 19, 2022

It may not actually be a Western, but Rodeo certainly isn’t short on a triumphant ‘yee-haaaa!’ factor.

| May 19, 2022