The Immigrant features some great performances from Cottilard and Phoenix and the visuals are gorgeous, but it's not enough to elevate this film to any significance due to a muddled and overly melodramatic script.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 19, 2024

While Marion Cotillard gives an incredible performance, the poignant direction makes this film a visual wonder of 2014.

| Jun 23, 2023

James Gray’s story is engaging and heartbreaking. His characters are interesting and compelling.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

An incredible American movie crafted by a New York director who absorbs European cinema like water.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 15, 2021

...overall, the film is burdened by facile misanthropy and cynicism.

| Aug 13, 2020

A rich tapestried portrait of 1920's New York through the eye of a young Polish immigrant.

| Dec 14, 2019

Beautifully realized and polished, The Immigrant is a raw period piece that reminds us all about the cost for welcoming a freshly brand chapter in the pursuit of nourishing one's stagnant livelihood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2018

There are love rivals vying for the same women. However is this enough to save the film? Not really as it's hard to connect with the two dimensional Ewa, although there are glimmers of strength but these don't really ever come to the surface.

| Aug 22, 2018

When the movie ended, a woman approached; like me, she had seen it on her own and I think she felt compelled to debrief with someone. "Wasn't that the saddest thing?" she asked, shaking her head. "It was," I agreed. "It really was."

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 3, 2017

Technically there is nothing wrong with The Immigrant, but it never engages or even really touches the audience.

| Oct 20, 2017

a slow, simmering film with intense characters and a drama that demands patience and rewards with a rich drama about the American experience.

| May 19, 2016

The Immigrant functions quite impressively as a character piece (or pieces, as the film is as much about Bruno as Ewa), a condemnation of the subjugation of foreigners and as a uniquely beautiful period piece.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 4, 2015

One of the wonders of the film is how Gray reveals unexpected depths and dimensions of these characters throughout their journeys.

| Apr 25, 2015

The Immigrant's handsome Blu-Ray transfer should be welcomed with open arms, even if there's little meat on the bone here for fans of special features.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 31, 2015

For what it is - a golden-toned melodrama about an innocent being tarnished and then redeemed in the Big City - The Immigrant is a lovely piece of work.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 4, 2015

The physical look of the movie is a revelation of a lost past.

| Sep 22, 2014

Unsurprisingly, Marion Cotillard is key as the recipient of the film's many misfortunes, displaying both tenacity and fragility to cultivate audience investment in Ewa's choices.

Full Review | Sep 18, 2014

The Immigrant is a bleak film, at times a little cold. But thanks to the magnificent work of Gray's cast, it's difficult to forget.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2014

The film, too, changes shape as it goes along, beginning as something resembling social realism before developing into an old-fashioned "woman's picture."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 12, 2014

What's difficult to encapsulate is the vivid emotion that underpins this story, or the depths suggested by the close-ups of the remarkable Cotillard that explain her complex state as well as recalling the golden era of 1930s Hollywood cinematography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2014