Funny, wry, emotionally potent, and like most films by Hirokazu Kore-eda operates on multiple levels -- usually some kind of domestic tragicomedy under which lies profound existential disquiet.

| Apr 7, 2022

The Truth has flaws, and it feels small-screen to me, although I suppose that's true of every movie that comes out right now. But Catherine Deneuve is a total delight as the fabulous, frank Fabienne.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2020

Using compassion and the slightest touch of syrup, Kore-eda brings his characters to a place where they realize with shock that they're finally on the same page.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2020

It feels like Koreeda used his awesome clout to make the kind of standard picture that we get a dozen of every year.

| Jul 9, 2020

It's gentle and a little wistful... It's fine, which is not what you expect to say with the people involved, but I enjoyed it.

| Jul 9, 2020

The new film returns to some of Kore-eda's favorite themes of responsibility, legacy, and the fluidity of roles between parents and children.

| Jul 7, 2020

The Truth is an unassuming picture, but like Fabienne, it leaves a lasting impression.

| Jul 7, 2020

Everything - every scene, every line of dialogue - feels like it's working toward a point. Which, when you think about it, is a good way to never actually make a point.

| Jul 6, 2020

In "The Truth," the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda wittily toys with Deneuve's persona, its layers and meanings.

| Jul 3, 2020

Binoche is very good here, but this is definitely Deneuve's show.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2020

If anyone can handle The Truth, it's Deneuve.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2020

...intermittently extraordinary...

| Jul 2, 2020

While the performances are total delights, there remains the nagging feeling that Kore-eda is not working at his peak.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2020

You don't want to this thrilling standoff between two French legends-Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche -who are double dynamite as a mother and daughter with different ideas of what constitutes the truth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2020

If and when there's an Oscar ceremony, there ought to be considerable talk about Catherine Deneuve and her regal performance in The Truth.

| Jul 1, 2020

Master Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda makes a seamless transition to French-language cinema, filming in and around Paris and successfully importing his feel for complicated family dynamics...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 1, 2020

It's good to see Kore-eda try to stretch himself a little, and The Truth demonstrates that his talent can survive on foreign soil. But there's not as much powerful emotional veracity to it as one might hope.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 30, 2020

Kore-eda's film... is nonetheless a quiet, Gallic gift to these orphans in the dark who are forever sorting through old stories and new movies in an attempt to find beauty in both the truth and the lies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2020

Deneuve is mesmerising, but I was also sometimes irritated, particularly by the wistful piano music that would never shut up. It is worth seeing but not, perhaps, as much as Kore-eda's other films, which you would do well to search out online.

| Apr 2, 2020

There's a real beguiling, naturalistic performance, even when the central character is insufferable in so many ways...

| Mar 30, 2020