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

Just go along with the unexpected and judgment-free but sometimes shocking and often gory ride that is Titane.

| Feb 8, 2022

Julia Ducournau tests the limits of the viewer, is persistently provocative. But she also wrings your heart with lines swarming with grief, with pain.

| Feb 1, 2022

It's a body horror that's really a family drama; that's really a sly comedy about the discomfort of being trapped inside all this vulnerable, imperfect flesh.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2022

You can't stop watching, though - but be warned, one moment of impromptu facial surgery is cinema's most wince-inducing moment of nasal brutality since Polanski's Chinatown.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 7, 2022

Nothing is safe and nothing is sacred in Julia Ducournau's delirious new world.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 31, 2021

Some will be repelled, many will be bamboozled. But for those with an appetite for cinema that gets you in the gut, Ducournau delivers the goods.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2021

Though a little messy and increasingly absurd in places, Titane is a brash body horror with intense central performances, certain to leave you wide-eyed and slack-jawed at such a risky cinematic endeavour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2021

A film that defies emotional physics, a tender treatise on intimacies which we have yet to name.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 22, 2021

Your mileage will almost certainly vary. It all depends on how highly elevated you like your Gallic horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2021

It's a fabulously weird and original tale. Two fine lead performances carry us through the sometimes misty forests of meaning, to a finale that defies description.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2021

Titane is not a film that can be solved. Its allegories are sensory. Its themes only felt. And, for me, I felt something very true.

| Nov 17, 2021

The film's provocations rarely rise to the schoolyard-japing level of Ken Russell. (Tom Six's derriere-devouring oeuvre is more this shameless movie's speed.)

| Nov 16, 2021

Titane is a truly harrowing experience, if you're willing to let go behind the wheel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2021

Yes, it's a far-fetched plot only a Midnight Madness film audience could love. But that's who writer/director Julia Ducournau is courting. She's out to shake up several genres and shock her audiences.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2021

For whatever we're supposed to feel is outrageous about it, it's slickly entertaining for straightforward reasons: the pile-up of mysteries that some of us simply can't not see through to the end.

| Oct 9, 2021

Titane will not give you the answers to your questions, and you're sure to have plenty by the film's end. But it's a hell of a ride across genre, shock, and awe...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 8, 2021

There is real artistry, and thought, at work here too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2021

Does it make sense? No, but it has its own internal logic. It's emotionally coherent. Viewers may not like those emotions, but they do hang together.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2021

It doesn't all work, but "Titane" is a messy, provocative and wild piece with attitude and style that is never uninteresting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2021