Ducournau stubbornly maintains empathy for her characters and manages to tell a story about the fluidity of identity, the fine line between artifice and authenticity, and the miracle of finding love and connection in the most unexpected places.

| Dec 20, 2024

If you can get past the grisly serial killings and body horror there is more to this movie than meets the eye.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Ducournau's bold, audacious follow-up to Raw gets the job done.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2024

There is nothing “cheap” about intense Titane which shines with inventiveness and brims with its own special intellectual, emotional and physical rawness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Some of the most stunning imagery of the year wrapped in a film that sticks with you for months. Ugly and beautiful.

| Feb 24, 2024

Ducournau’s approach to cinematic lineage and influence in Titane is a complicated one, as she develops her singular filmmaking style into something even more evasive and intricate than in Raw.

| Oct 4, 2023

Julia Ducournau’s Titane is a unique, feral, and riveting masterwork.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 29, 2023

No matter what you do nothing will prepare you for Titane I loved nearly every ounce of this movie. It’s bold swings in story telling… to its violent gruesome manners that made me squirm in my seat…. To the moments that were even heartwarming.

| Jul 26, 2023

Stylistically, Ducournau delivers enough body horror to satisfy fans of David Cronenberg while using a lurid color palette reminiscent of Dario Argento.

| Jul 26, 2023

Ducournau crafts a movie that invokes a kind of emotional and physical response by displaying extreme modifications to the female body.

| Jul 20, 2023

Some films are obviously hungry for an Oscar. Some (like, say, The Final Purge) clearly aren’t. Titane is a weird hybrid, which knows it’s not going to get the award, but responds with a mix of parody, anger, and affection.

| Mar 28, 2023

In Titane, femininity and masculinity are presented as heavy cloaks that restrict the movement and the will of those who wear them. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2022

A beautiful piece of queer cinema...

| Nov 2, 2022

Throughout its runtime, Titane is unafraid to challenge the conventions of queer and trans storytelling.

| Oct 27, 2022

Through her body horror, she destroys the flesh to remove those ingrained stereotypes and reveal something entirely new in the process.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 22, 2022

The pain and struggle that forges the relationship between the protagonist and the father looking for his son is simultaneously beautiful and bizarre. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 13, 2022

Writer-director Julia Ducournau’s characters undergo a particularly violent form of cinematic exfoliation, scrubbed raw and left vulnerable, but also renewed and replenished

| Aug 27, 2022

A ferocious and unflinching thriller, and also beautiful, tender and compassionate.

| Aug 13, 2022

In the convergence of soft human bodies and the metal hardware, Titane explores the mechanics of fetishization, and the fetishization of mechanics.

| Aug 8, 2022

Ducornau returns to the family theme like a cyclone... the coldness and the coziness of the [proverbial] nest. The best thing is the brazenness with which she achieves it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2022