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

| Sep 22, 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

Gray's beautiful, dark film is a reminder of the difficulties faced by immigrants in any place and at any time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2014

The film is an achievement. Its complex reckoning of moral decency deserves a bigger audience.

| Jun 11, 2014

Gray's movie is an almost flawlessly articulated example of the kind of thing we like to say they just don't make any more: serious, adult, character-driven and impassioned.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2014

At times, Khondji's golden portraiture can make the characters seem encased in amber. But there's a tremendous payoff for the patient.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2014

If the film were the pilot for an HBO series then you would probably stay tuned for the second episode. As a standalone film, it feels like very thin stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2014

One of "The Immigrant's" primary assets is its texture: a rich fabric of sights and sounds that evoke the look and feel of New York's underbelly in the early 20th century.

| Jun 2, 2014

The Immigrant is two hours long, but I stayed even longer in my seat, through the credits, still in thrall to it all. The title is singular, but the scope is not so easily quantifiable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2014

An astonishingly beautiful, irresistibly grim movie ...

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 29, 2014

This is Gray's most mature work, and the picture raises Cotillard to a select pantheon.

| May 28, 2014

It's a little freaky to watch Phoenix go at it, a smooth-talking beguiler who suddenly turns stumblebum. But there's nothing freakish about Cotillard.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 23, 2014

It's the stuff of melodrama, elevated by Gray's sure hand and made more by Phoenix and Cotillard, lovers and haters and something beyond.

| Original Score: A- | May 23, 2014

Steeped in period atmosphere, "The Immigrant" tells the story of one woman's struggle, and it is a struggle indeed, to find her way in a new country.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2014

Gray, despite the rough edges, manages to meld decades of melodrama into a film that is at once simple and complex, morally black-and-white and psychologically ambiguous.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2014

Gray directs this handsome and evocative film with emotional restraint, making its archetypal title character a living individual whose moral journey is never simple.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2014

Its portrait of early 20th-century New York, a melting pot on a relentless simmer, feels wrenchingly real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2014

Beautifully shot (by Darius Khondji), designed, and performed, this may well be Gray's masterpiece.

| May 22, 2014

From the Caruso serenade for the new arrivals at Ellis Island to the discordant reality on the other side of the golden door, "The Immigrant" has a ringing message: Succeeding in America is a dream act.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2014

From Ellis Island to Central Park to middle-class Brooklyn to the crowded streets of the Lower East Side, Gray delivers a gritty, muted portrait of Roaring '20s New York, photographed in monochrome tones by master cinematographer Darius Khondji.

| May 22, 2014