As it progresses, I have the feeling that the portrait about mythomania and unemployment is leading nowhere and is as unnecessary as it is forgettable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 29, 2021

The film is loosely based on the case of Jean-Claude Romand, who fooled his family for 18 years, claiming to be a researcher for the World Health Organization, before his world collapsed and he murdered his wife and parents.

| Feb 16, 2021

Here, [Cantet] seems to tell us, nothing can compare with the violence experienced by any human caught up in mindless white-collar management, whether working or laid off.

| Feb 28, 2020

engaging character study that probes far deeper than American films dare tread

| Original Score: B | Jul 8, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 15, 2009

Laurent Cantet's sophomore film, a brilliant character study of the impact of unemployment on one ordinary man's life and personality, places him at the forefront of a new generation of exciting Gallic directors.

| Original Score: A | Jan 2, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Time Out is stylish and hushed, at once suspenseful and melancholy. It can't be neatly fitted into a genre, just as its hero--played with devastating understatement by Recoing--can't be easily dismissed as a psycho or a villain.

| Nov 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Cantet takes his time, letting us become almost comfortable in Vincent's presence, then shocking us with the audacity of his lies.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 15, 2005

A nonviolent yet tragic tale of job alienation and self-worth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 1, 2004

Time Out ... manage[s] to remain compelling for all of its austerity and simplicity, acknowledging a strong performance by Recoing ...

| Original Score: B | Feb 21, 2004

Here's a sleepy little treasure folks! Veteran French stage actor, Aurlien Recoing, looms in the film. He is at once foreboding and inviting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 10, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Full Review | Jan 16, 2003

An intriguing character study and a meditation on the psychology of work and the nature of scams.

| Jan 16, 2003

From a deceptively simple premise, this deeply moving French drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Quiet and slow-paced, as all the finest French films are, Time Out modestly redefines the psychological thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002