The Book of Solutions is better enjoyed for its unbridled inventiveness than its commentary on filmmaking at large, as well as for Gondry's idiosyncrasies, back in full force.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Physical, reverberant goofiness conquers the moment with low-comedy stylings. (Surprise cameos: Sting, and if my notes are correct, I saw George Clooney up there. too.)

| Apr 12, 2024

Showcasing his versatility, Gondry delivers eye-catching animations and displays his well-known ability to transform logical and everyday objects into something new... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2024

Delirious, excessive, hyperkinetic, at times funny, and in many ways autobiographical, The Book of Solutions can be seen as a forward flight or as an act of atonement and catharsis. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 26, 2024

At times absurd, at times funny, The Book of Solutions is a warm movie full of “magical” moments typical of Gondry's cinema... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 18, 2024

Michel Gondry after all these years is still figuring out his formula, and The Book of Solutions might just be the most fun you will have trying to unlock his puzzle box mind.

| Mar 11, 2024

It’s not very cinematic and it doesn’t fit neatly into a conventional three-act structure of a Hollywood screenplay, but that doesn’t make it any less authentic.

| Mar 6, 2024

... The film skillfully plays with cyclical structures, self-aware nudges, and jokes at the expense of vital truism reflections, but it shines in sketching the tolls of artistic creation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2023

A gritty autobiography about a director on the verge of a nervous breakdown. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2023

The Book of Solutions is somewhat diluted towards the end, but with its beautiful professional inventiveness and its battle between impulse and control, it leaves us with a portrait that transcends... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 20, 2023

After an eight-year break, French director Michel Gondry returns at his very best with The Book of Solutions, a confessional and sublimely inventive ode to the act of filmmaking.

| Oct 19, 2023

Returning to cinema with a heartfelt look at the creative process, Michel Gondry dives back into filmmaking without a safety net, channeling all his artistic angst through an onscreen alter ego.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 18, 2023

Gondry’s style of magic is like pure joy fuel for me, and the further he strays from boring-old reality, the more I enjoyed this work

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2023

A movie vaccinated with its own rage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 28, 2023

The Book of Solutions is a frenzied exploration of artistic expression packed in a self-aware package.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2023

Wrestles with how to handle creativity.

| Original Score: B | Aug 8, 2023

Gondry’s first feature in eight years, and it’s possibly the worst movie he has ever made.

| Jun 4, 2023

Tempers Gondry's trademark naiveté and lack of narrative discipline with a self-critical examination of his strengths and weaknesses as an artist if only to salute the survival of his child mind in the film industry as its own little wonder.

| Jun 3, 2023

The Book of Solutions is -- first and foremost -- a high-energy ode to the joys of being possessed by a creative spirit, and the pleasure that Gondry takes in telling a plot-light story that’s driven by pure invention is both palpable and contagious.

| Original Score: B- | May 26, 2023

The Book of Solution hides under the guise of a self-deprecating comedy, as a conceited exercise in self-indulgence and arrogance. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 24, 2023