The Innocent is one of the more moving heist flicks you’re ever likely to see.

| Jun 20, 2024

Garrel walks a fine line between the tragic thriller and the hopeful family comedy, bridging the two with a dry, typically French sense of humour.

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

The movie's evolution is surprisingly explosive considering how intimate it seems. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2023

Both a terrific black comedy and tension-filled crime caper...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 11, 2023

While its unpredictability delivers sporadic laughs, The Innocent’s strongest weapon is its unexpected heart, which is reinforced by its solid performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2023

Actor-filmmaker Louis Garrel inventively packs the screen with chatty characters, slapstick silliness and tense action, and he also pulls a range of story strands in often surprising directions. So watching it feels like taking a rather wild ride.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2023

The film (which Garrel directs as well as stars in) gathers a madcap momentum, in the way that really bad life choices are apt to do.

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

This film has enchanting performances and greater depths and fewer cliches than it could easily have slipped into.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2023

... A frothy heist movie with an unexpectedly tender heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2023

Overall, this is a comic drama, and one way to sum it up would be that it's not funny enough to be a great comedy and not coherent enough to be a strong drama. Still, it has freshness and all sorts of odd little surprises.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

The Innocent is many (too many?) things in one film -- double romcom, drama, comedy, thriller and a crime caper. No matter which, the film is fun and fast-moving entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

The film manages to be stylish and sluggish, snappy and choppy all at once. To fall in love you have to be a good actor, it seems to be telling us, yet you also have to steal hearts and this is a movie that doesn’t quite pull that scam off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

Garrel’s The Innocent deftly mixes comic family melodrama with genre thrills in this pacy, emotive thriller with a killer cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2023

It’s a broad, enjoyable, lighthearted movie with a fair few not-insignificant plot holes, but a genuinely surprising storyline that keeps you guessing to the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2023

A fun, soapy caper – earnestly silly and very warm.

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

The Innocent's French pop-synth soundtrack gifts the already fast-paced film with a marvellous sense of bounce, but also reflects exactly what the movie is: a supremely finessed, funny, endearing and engaging flick that echoes for everyone.

| Jul 22, 2023

“The Innocent” deals with serous things, like the prison system, crime and the throes of middle-age marriage. But, its heart is in the humor and it is where the pleasure is.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2023

The Innocent’s manic pace and screwball situations feel just far enough away from the naturalistic, ever so slightly-presentational style of Garrel’s father that it’s clear he’s forging his own path.

| Jun 18, 2023

Garrel’s script continually references the art of acting, his own character amusingly the least convincing at pretending…

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 17, 2023

The Innocent thoroughly marches to the beat of its own drum, a tender comedy that finds ample meaning within the simple mechanics of narrative.

| Jun 1, 2023