The Tenant is a poetic nightmare about punishment imposed on an unguilty man who merely entertained great fear of guilt.

| Jan 23, 2024

A disturbing and poignant anthology of Roman Polanski's favourite, oppressive themes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2010

It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre.

| Oct 18, 2008

As the plot escalates into increasingly arbitrary excesses of fantasy and heads for the predictable pay-off, the movie looks more and more like a potboiler.

| Jun 24, 2006

The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 23, 2004

It's an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2004

The Tenant isn't so much a psychological portrait of grief as it is an unnerving acknowledgement of the ambiguous nature of the world.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 28, 2003

The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.

| Jan 1, 2000