A film in which the camera's point of view never changes can start to feel claustrophobic. But the originality of the concept and the quality of the performances help to compensate.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2001

The last few minutes of this movie are strangely moving. What leads up to them is shot through with dark humor and scathing satire.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2001

Thomas In Love never develops beyond an interesting exercise in style over story.

| Sep 14, 2001

Innovative and thoughtful.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2001

For a film that takes place entirely within the confines of the main character's computer screen, the Belgian Thomas in Love is amazingly interesting stuff.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 10, 2001

It duplicates Thomas' miserable world so well we want to escape it as urgently as Thomas does.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2001

A good story about a fellow who really needs to leave his room.

| Aug 9, 2001

The Dutch director Pierre Paul Renders ingeniously conjures the image of a control freak society that is sinister in its very playfulness.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 9, 2001

At 97 minutes, [Renders and Blasband] manage to get about all they possibly can out of this unusual narrative ploy.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2001

One of the year's small finds -- that rare art-house date movie.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2001

Dark wit and shrewd social observation sustain this cunning, unnerving conceit by director Pierre-Paul Renders and writer Philippe Blasband.

| Aug 3, 2001

The film is full of ingenious details and effective character sketches (Thomas has a mother who would give Woody Allen the willies) that go a long way toward covering up its conventionalities.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2001

Starts gently, with amusing drollness, then gets more serious, even provocative, without sacrificing its light touch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2001

Dissects how human affection has been short-circuited by information-age trappings with a fusty literal-mindedness.

| Aug 1, 2001