Doillon's filmmaking perfectly matches the passion of Rodin, like a musician biopic that feels like one of their songs.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 1, 2018

A cooped-up slog.

| Original Score: C | Jun 1, 2018

Not since Jacques Rivette's magnificent La Belle Noiseuse (1991) has a film zeroed in on creative process with the same obsessive care it devotes to the artist's volatile love life.

| May 31, 2018

It's a movie that already seems like a dust-gathered statue, rather than something vividly, imaginatively crafted to reflect the burning intensity of so passionate and forward-minded an artist.

| May 31, 2018

Auguste Rodin made sculptures of extraordinary expressiveness. "Rodin" offers two hours of actors struggling to appear lifelike.

| May 31, 2018

The real Rodin imbued his clay with reverent, lusty life, while Doillon merely offers a buffet of nude day players.

| May 30, 2018

Jacques Doillon's shrewd ellipses emphasize time as a great and uniting humbler and thief, allowing stray moments to suddenly crystallize unexpressed yearnings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2018

As much as the familiar territory makes Rodin hard to embrace, so does the way Doillon tells the story.

| May 26, 2017

Seems to lose interest and skip forward every time it is in danger of building momentum.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2017

You'd think a movie with this much screwing would at least feel less like a statue itself, immobile and damnably honorary.

| Original Score: C+ | May 25, 2017

A pedestrian and pedantic trawl through Rodin's middle period.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2017

Hit the Rodin, Jacques.

| May 23, 2017

Even culture vultures will have their senses dulled by this ploddingly didactic two-hour lesson in the life and loves of master sculptor Rodin.

| May 23, 2017

Jacques Doillon has directed a quite excruciatingly bad film about the sculptor Auguste Rodin and he needs to sit down and think about what he has done.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 23, 2017