It isn’t easy to get modern audiences to engage with a film that looks like it was made a century prior. Yet, that’s precisely what director Michel Hazanavicius manages to do.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 31, 2023

The Artist, as cute and charming as it was when it came out, falls into the severely niche category a decade later.

| Jun 27, 2023

It’s the opposite of everything that sells at the box office today, and it’s a pure delight from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2023

It is an appreciation of silent cinema from a director who quite deftly incorporates the flavor of silent moviemaking, with its physically expressive acting, longer shots, and more patient editing rhythms, with a more modern sensibility...

| Oct 9, 2022

Likable, visually captivating, and not without ingenuity even though it has a hard time transcending the clichés on which it's built. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 4, 2022

“The Artist” reminds us of everything that is magical about movies. It reminds us of a time when creativity trumped huge elaborate effects and million dollar set pieces.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

"The Artist" calls back to the when the beauty and power of single looks and precise movements driven by beautiful film scores meant something before they became filler.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2022

The Artist holds up as a great technical achievement, but that's about it.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 26, 2021

Hazanavicius deserves credit for making his thesis on silent movies so digestible and entertaining, and there is much to engage with in The Artist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2021

Jean Dujardin is like flashbulbs bursting in your eyeballs. He's every inch the movie star the movie demands and then sixteen swaggering steps further. Total hammy megawatted perfection.

| Jul 2, 2021

Much care has been given to the look of the film. But its originality and effort stop there.

| Feb 28, 2021

The experiment in recreating a silent motion picture is superbly realized.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 30, 2020

It achieves a contemporary greatness.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

While Singin' in the Rain will always remain my favourite musical ever, The Artist is a different experience all together - one that may surprise you if you give it a chance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2020

A film that reminds us why we love celluloid with the drops of nostalgia spilled on all the shots that compose it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 24, 2020

At its best, The Artist is a triumphantly modern silent film, which shows the influence of Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, and Frank Borzage but never looks like a relic.

| Mar 18, 2020

Visually, the film is stunning with spot-on direction by Michel Hazanavicius...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 22, 2020

Movies don't get much more ebullient, charming, and heart-skippingly cute than the romantic comedy The Artist.

| Jan 17, 2020

[Director Michel Hazanavicius'] extensive research and efforts to ensure that The Artist is a respectable homage to silent cinema is admirable... it was a labour of love that was well worth the time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2019

A really good way to introduce your kids to silent movies.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 18, 2019