Thanks in large part to Munn's elegant, authentic, grounded and moving performance, we're rooting hard for Violet to find some inner peace.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 11, 2021

Justine Bateman has been around this business for most of her life, so there's clearly a lot of truth in the story she's telling [in Violet]. If only she'd let it speak for itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2021

It's a very interesting film. Wonderfully well-made and complicated.

| Nov 5, 2021

While the bumpy dramedy is a bit inside-baseball, Violet successfully shows how this professional's constant dialog with her inner critic (voice of Justin Theroux) cripples her.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2021

Utilizing such overt stylization of a high-concept approach, "Violet" is a bit of a one-trick pony. But Bateman, as well as Munn, manage to pull it off in a feature-length format, and Violet's eventual hard-earned redemption is deeply satisfying.

| Oct 29, 2021

The movie is built as a pastiche, with one visual or aural layer after another piling on until we can feel the visceral overwhelm of anxiety.

| Oct 28, 2021

A fascinating idea that's frustratingly underdeveloped, "Violet" is a sometimes uncomfortable watch, its ambition stifled by gimmickry and its ominous tone an unfulfilled promise.

| Oct 28, 2021

Violet reveals Bateman is a woman with both an extraordinarily precise vision, and the talent and good old-fashioned moxie to pull it off

| Sep 12, 2021

You wind up feeling like you've participated in a self-help exercise with super-high production values.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2021

It's easy to appreciate the ambition of [Violet] even if I didn't quite believe everything about it.

| Sep 11, 2021

[Olivia] Munn's performance, and the film's eventual narrative trajectory, are incisive enough to get around its visual shortcomings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2021

The fact we can see/hear what Violet is thinking makes this an unusually effective illustration of how microaggressions really land, causing macro damage, despite the poker face she puts on for her peers.

| Mar 28, 2021

It's made all the more powerful by Munn's performance, which cuts through Bateman's occasionally fussy flourishes to deliver the most substantial work of her career.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 25, 2021

Violet feels less like a film than a pitch meeting. A frenzied flurry of ideas, devices, and character sketches chucked out to see what sticks.

| Mar 20, 2021

[Bateman] draws naturalistic performances from Munn and a large supporting cast. But the story itself finally feels lost beneath the levels of artifice rather than heightened by it.

| Mar 19, 2021