Although not one of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's best films, The Unknown Girl manages to transcend the minimal story it tells. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 13, 2024

What it vibrantly presents, however, is her modest yet determined resilience in the face of a multitude of tiny threats. And that makes both Jenny and The Unknown Girl quietly heroic.

| Nov 30, 2023

The Dardennes simply depict true life and allow it to speak volumes. That’s the cinematic world they work in, and Adèle Haenel fits beautifully on their canvas.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

A bitter and agile fable, one that rattles and challenges us, and fortunately leaves us emotionally adrift, something we should experience often. Much more often. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 1, 2022

The Unknown Girl is dull and, in the end, a drama merely of individual "moral responsibility.

| Jul 8, 2020

The Unknown Girl sporadically threatens to burst into life and become riveting, though it seems content to chug along as a classy and mildly diverting mystery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2019

In the case of The Unknown Girl, it's as if we're interning for Dr. Jenny Davin.

| Feb 21, 2019

The Unknown Girl is both one of [the Dardennes'] most nihilistic and hopeful efforts.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 27, 2018

If this is a "minor" Dardennes film, which was the critical reception coming from Cannes in 2016, it is nonetheless a masterful piece of art. If only all filmmakers could produce "minor" works like this one.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 24, 2018

Shot in bleached-out blues and greys in an overcast, sombre landscape that never seems to lighten, the tone is melancholy, low key yet also as suspenseful and compelling as a whodunnit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2018

I'm sure there's a Christian allegory that I'm missing here, but a blandly sturdy, stutter-stop drama is a blandly sturdy, stutter-stop drama in any denomination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2018

To dismiss it as merely conventional would be wrongheaded; it's a deeply felt and nuanced drama fueled by subtle acts of empathy.

| Aug 20, 2018

it's a portrayal of guilt, shame, and deliverance as rich and memorable as any I've seen.

| Aug 6, 2018

...this film just doesn't quite gel.

| Mar 6, 2018

Stylistically The Unknown Girl follows the Dardennean style manual... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 29, 2018

Even the most attentive viewers to start wondering what's on the menu at the pub across the street. Such distracting thoughts may prevent learning the outcome, which bolts into the film at the speed of light, and fades away almost as fast.

| Original Score: 85/100 | Dec 29, 2017

It is not the best film of the Dardenne brothers, but its proposal is not at all negligible. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 29, 2017

Oddly, this realism heightens the suspense. Because "Unknown Girl" doesn't feel like a movie, the peril that Davin faces as she pokes around into the girl's death feels that much more genuine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2017

I... appreciate how her journey is initially driven by guilt but ends up powered by compassion and a sense of responsibility

| Dec 16, 2017

It's not a good [mystery] per se, but it's almost what you'd expect from the brothers handling genre material.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 4, 2017