Ozon, perhaps not entirely purposely, addresses the very timely issue of trans and non-binary gender identity, yet he does it within the framework of his usual style and preoccupations - and shortchanges neither.

| May 3, 2016

A swirl of gender confusion, "The New Girlfriend" tosses all the he/she/we question marks it can find in a tale of contemporary confused sexuality.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2015

It's less than it should've been, and a little mild. But Ozon makes it glide with confidence, in or out of heels.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 24, 2015

Duris in drag looks like a refugee from the New York Dolls, but his character aspires to nothing more than life as a bourgeois, pearl-clad mom.

| Sep 24, 2015

The New Girlfriend is a funny, delicate, subtly flavored dish deliciously prepared by Franois Ozon - idiosyncratic and unforgettable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2015

Though it winds its way to a much different destination (and features far more crossdressing), The New Girlfriend is, like Vertigo, very much a film about loss and what we do to fill the spaces vacated by those who leave us.

| Sep 18, 2015

A wildly entertaining work, one that manages to be simultaneously funny, touching, slightly unnerving and undeniably sexy to behold, regardless of where your predilections may lie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 18, 2015

Although at times amorphously told and genre non-specific - Dark comedy? Soapy drama? DePalma-esque thriller? - the film holds interest as it often defies expectation and juggles its bold, complex emotions.

| Sep 17, 2015

"The New Girlfriend" never pretends to be more than what it is, a delicious and frothy fantasia with a teasing erotic frisson.

| Sep 17, 2015

The rules governing desire are nonexistent in "The New Girlfriend," an unusual work of psychological mystery sans thriller elements but with a subtle dose of comic satire.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2015

Exceptionally graceful and accomplished, Ozon's film challenges our received notions of normalcy, intimacy, and love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2015

There's a cruel comedy lying in wait for these characters, but their creator is protecting them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2015

In Ozon's confident hands, "The New Girlfriend" has moments that juxtapose gentle humor and surprising depth of feeling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2015

As recently as a year ago, when the film premiered on the festival circuit, it would have been hard to predict how timely it would seem today.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 17, 2015

The film has a nice sense of female friendships' emotional depth.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 16, 2015

It's a politically timid work, but an unabashedly emotional experience. By turns suspenseful, aching, and exuberant, it offers a buoyant tale of self-discovery that's rooted in questionable modes of mourning.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Sep 16, 2015

Ozon sacrifices his sharp portrayal of grief and rebirth to clumsy convention.

| Sep 15, 2015

A delectable riff on transformation, desire and sexuality that blends the heightened reality of melodrama with mischievous humor and an understated strain of Hitchcockian suspense.

| Sep 14, 2015

Franois Ozon's delightful, intermittently morbid drama-lite offers his most textured meditation on gender identity since Water Drops on Burning Rocks .

| Sep 14, 2015

The intimacy of female friendships and the unpredictability of grief are at the core of "The New Girlfriend," but its surface is focused on sexier, kinkier matters. The film threatens to go campy at any moment but instead is dark, erotic and thoughtful.

| Aug 10, 2015