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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 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

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

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

Whether psychological drama or sexual farce - and, really, there's no way to tell - "Sibyl" is a soapy mess.

| Sep 10, 2020

Audiences may likely experience an emotional distance from and not an emotional attachment to the main character.

| Sep 9, 2020

I came away liking the movie's world, even as I marveled at the carelessness and heavy-handedness of the screenplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2020

Perhaps the version of Sibyl we have has been cut down from a significantly longer version, which no doubt would be even messier, but also potentially more compelling as psychodrama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2020

[Virginie Efira] holds this film together through its various swings, and comes off stronger for it.

| Feb 12, 2020

Throughout, Justine Triet is committed above all else to the tricks that memory and language can play on us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2019

There's much to appreciate about the meta-commentary at the center of this lively work, but "Sibyl" ultimately becomes a victim of the same pressure to deliver a big, showy narrative that its troubled protagonist so desperately wishes she could tell.

| Original Score: B- | May 28, 2019

It is a formulaic story about a woman who has zero redeeming features, and lacks the charm to carry that repugnance off.

| May 25, 2019

Triet handles the material gracefully and altogether skillfully, directing star Virginie Efira to one of her most impressive all-encompassing performances to date.

| May 24, 2019

It is not convincing, and some of the acting is not of the highest order.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2019

Sibyl is far less than the sum of its parts, and never manages to shake off a heavy tone which consistently threatens to capsize even the rare funny interludes.

| May 24, 2019

A film that effectively plays as cinematic dessert - albeit less a choux puff than a lemon tart, with sharper notes than expected to its creamy pleasures.

| May 24, 2019