With a level of pizzazz that makes Phryne Fisher look tame, The Crime Is Mine is a racy, comedic triumph.

| Jan 9, 2025

Huppert is sublimely silly, deliciously funny and single-handedly worth the price of admission.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2024

François Ozon’s fanfic for the Jazz Age steers clear of pastiche and is utterly charming — throwing a few curveballs to keep you on your toes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2024

The prolific and mercurial François Ozon returns with another of his periodic descents into frothy period pastiche.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2024

Another exceptional film from Ozon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2024

Ozon has a whale of a time poking holes in the corrupt justice system.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2024

The film touches on cancel culture, echo chambers and filter bubbles. But it’s also primarily, and fabulously, silly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

The film’s appealing theatricality and appetite for farce nods to its stage origins, as well as the Hollywood comedies of that era, and it zips along with gusto, featuring chic costumes alongside the requisite twists and turns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2024

This is a French film we’re talking about; very French. It is tightly drilled, robustly performed and entertainingly shallow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2024

[François Ozon]’s both recycling this kind of project’s superficial kerb appeal while feeding off its wrong-headedness. Whatever: it’s entertaining fodder on a drab day.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2024

This jolly essay in feminist revisionism lip-smackingly relishes its theatricality, playing on different performance styles...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2024

Writer-director Francois Ozon creates a wonderfully engaging vibe that mixes in little jolts of realism amid the generally breezy, gleefully camp thrills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2024

A sugary delight with a delightfully bitter aftertaste.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2024

The film is comprehensively hijacked in its final third by Isabelle Huppert. She blasts into the picture in full-on diva mode as a grand dame of the silent era now eyeing her chance at a comeback, delivering an outrageously hammy performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2024

It’s all awfully charming.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2024

The Crime Is Mine is a funny, beautifully charismatic film, full of brilliant characters, gorgeous costumes and captivating production design.

| Apr 1, 2024

It’s endearingly goofy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2024

Most noir movies feature a protagonist who has to hide their guilt. In “The Crime is Mine,” the heroine has to hide her innocence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2024

A very artificial confection, and there are moments when its archness becomes a bit much, but overall it’s a delectable divertissement.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 1, 2024

It’s Ozon’s way of addressing today’s social crises -- incessant lawfare and fake news, all of it compacted into this brilliant, perplexing farce.

| Jan 27, 2024