Triet guides us through this journey, skilfully utilizing Sybil's subjectivity to weave a plot where comedy and drama coexist in a subtle dance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 17, 2023

Triet makes movies to assure us that our lives aren't always the shambles that we pretend them to be.

| Jun 5, 2021

Sibyl balances romantic thriller and delicious drama with comic overtones about movie-making.

| Nov 21, 2020

"...it's Efira and Exarchopoulos holding this movie up with their impassioned performances, like a bent and battered wire hanger struggling to support an oversized wool sweater"

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 12, 2020

A mess Sibyl is, although at times it is a glorious one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2020

Triet ultimately doesn't deliver the film she perhaps intended to, with a title dedicated as it is to what is supposed to be the main character.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2020

Lively performances almost make up for a perfunctory script.

| Original Score: 5.1/10 | Sep 20, 2020

Justine Triet's Sibyl descends from that old school tradition of softcore and heated melodramas. But the intervening years have informed her approach. She films her heroine from a self-empowered, and self-deluded, vantage point.

| Sep 17, 2020

It's amusing, but it's not terribly novel... It's very well-acted, funny, and Sandra Hüller, who plays the director of the film within the film, is hilarious.

| Sep 15, 2020

Virginie Efira gives a tour-de-force performance.

| Sep 15, 2020

A film filled with quick-witted observations about vanity and delusion (self- and otherwise), Sibyl bracingly concludes with no moral to impart, no character truly redeemed.

| Sep 14, 2020

The observation that we're all actors in our narrative, and some are better at faking it than others, is what propels "Sibyl" to a smart, and emotionally resonant, ending.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2020

The buildup is greater than the payoff in this comic thriller that rarely finds new ground in its exploration of obsession and addiction.

| Sep 12, 2020

While I can see how this might have worked as a straight comedy or drama, the combination of the two tones never quite gels into a satisfying whole and it all just runs out of steam after a while.

| Sep 11, 2020

Efira's beautifully controlled performance keeps us guessing whether she's the protagonist or the villain of the movie, or some combination of the two.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2020

Rich in impulsive sensuality and knowing humor, the film captivates even as it stumbles through too many subplots.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2020

Triet's direction is witty, regularly finding clever and disorienting ways to break in and out of scenes while the more predictable developments of the plot take unexpectedly elongated paths.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2020

That earlier film and its off-camera drama remain more compelling than anything in the busy and ultimately banal "Sibyl."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2020

Like its central character, Sibyl wants to have it too many ways, and the results aren't productive.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2020

It's a comedy of self-discovery, a drama of lingering addiction and a study of how even seemingly conquered traumas can devastatingly reassert themselves.

| Sep 10, 2020