The film’s commentary on class and indifference resonates today and, hopefully, can inspire viewers to strive for greater understanding and empathy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 27, 2024

This film is, arguably, Jean Renoir’s greatest achievement.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 2, 2024

Renoir's script, a perfect complex mechanism that runs with the confidence of a Rolls-Royce engine, is one of the few sophisticated films about love that achieve irony without a stain of malignity.

| Mar 6, 2024

Part scathing critique of the bourgeoisie, part sex romp, part tragedy, The Rules of the Game dances on the edge of a volcano like its characters, skirting easy classification.

| Feb 6, 2024

Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a love roundelay that accelerates and intensifies until it becomes a rare mingling of lyric poetry and macabre farce.

| Feb 5, 2024

It may take its time in establishing its characters and their deeply-intermingled circumstances, but once the sparks start to fly, it becomes a remarkably entertaining satire that will have you transfixed with its shocking revelations and other surprises.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2023

…we have the elements of a farce here, but La Regle du Jeu starts like a comedy, and ends in the starkest, bleakest tragedy…

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2023

Jean Renoir’s newly restored 1939 classic proves that lawless wealth — then as now — makes a marvelous farce of us all.

| Feb 17, 2023

It gradually grows more serious, all the while juggling a complex tonal and moral complexity...

| Jan 6, 2023

Renoir achieved what remains a supreme appraisal of his society, as well as a deliriously accomplished and boundlessly influential motion picture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 2, 2022

Continues to shape and inspire the cinema of today and tomorrow.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 24, 2021

Renoir's camera focuses on characters full of nuances, dedicated to a well-visible and latent game of mirror. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 17, 2020

Though pictorially it is very satisfying, M. Renoir has mixed high tragedy and low comedy.to such an extent that one is bewildered.

| Feb 22, 2020

A truly complex film -- and an entertaining one.

| Jan 25, 2020

Filled with nearly boundless pleasures. It is a film to be savored, like a fine wine whose riches have only grown with age.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

... a story of unsurpassed audacity, which leaves the most refined and ultramodern formalists with their mouths open. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 8, 2018

The word "Mozartean"... gets thrown around a little too eagerly by critics, but one movie, as almost everyone agrees, deserves this supreme benediction -- Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game.

| Jun 3, 2014

On the surface, a lace of flirtations, insinuations and rejections compose the basic plotting. But Renoir uses flashes of accelerating drama to amplify his bigger points.

| Jun 3, 2014

This is cinema at its pinnacle: sublime humanism smiling through tears of frustrated sadness.

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

The film may not suit all tastes, but its insight and humanity is undeniable.

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