It captures the tense flavor of a particularly heady time in Saint Laurent's life, during which he struggled with addiction and illness and juggled relationships ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2015

Saint Laurent was a truly mythic figure. It's a shame that Bonello's film doesn't do him justice.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 11, 2015

Repetitive, repulsive, empty while stuffed with cheap ennui and wholly lacking in either insight or inspiration, "Saint Laurent" is absolutely everything you don't want to see in a biographical film.

| Original Score: D | Jun 11, 2015

Saint Laurent comes across as a prisoner of his own genius, at once compelling and pathetic.

| May 28, 2015

Bonello makes good use of mirrors and reflective surfaces throughout the film, all very fitting for a story about a boy as beautiful and as self-absorbed as Narcissus himself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2015

Watching Bertrand Bonello's new film is less Saint Laurent than The Saint Laurent Experience: It's the biopic as fever dream.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2015

Bonello takes on the point of view of Saint Laurent himself, exposing a visionary world seen from within that is as strange and wonderful as that of a magnificently stitched garment turned inside out.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 21, 2015

Dreamy and impressionistic, full of debauchery, drugs, disco, and dazzling couture, Saint Laurent is a biopic that picks its moments, leaving backstory behind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2015

The biopic captures a psychology and aesthetic in an exhilarating, sensual, cerebral fashion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 21, 2015

The film is allergic to insight: It's as numbed-out as its hero addict.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2015

Evoking the era through period detail and occasional footage, director Bertrand Bonello has created a cautionary tale about the price of fame and celebrity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2015

Early stretches that show Yves (Gaspard Ulliel) commanding the seamstresses in his workshop or in a nightclub stalking a statuesque beauty he wants as his model are shot and composed impeccably, with a lustre that feels vintage.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2015

Saint Laurent understands that the surface is the substance here...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2015

Bonello might as well have shown him sleeping eight hours or using the toilet for all that says about the man and his work.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2015

Clinical, exacting, superbly intuitive, Saint Laurent and his associates put painstaking effort into everything from the tension of a seam to the width of a lapel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2015

The most exciting part of the film is the designer's famous show of sumptuous Moroccan-inspired gowns, bursting with wild color and verve. It's thrilling to watch the collection brought together ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2015

It's the movie equivalent of a row of trophies, all with blank plaques, or a bust of some anonymous Ozymandias - a vision of greatness with all the memorable details sanded off.

| Original Score: 40/100 | May 8, 2015

If you come away remembering anything from this 150-minute movie as it overstays its welcome, it will be individual scenes rather than the overall effect, for that is where Bonello shines.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2015

A mostly jumbled array of biographical swatches.

| May 7, 2015

Shepherding you past security with a flash of a V.I.P. all-access pass, it confers instant insider status made even more alluring by the element of time travel.

| May 7, 2015