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100This audience-pleaser is smart and acerbic. Jaoui has an uncanny ear - as director, co-writer and part of the inspired ensemble cast - for human foibles, self-deception, celebrity worship and female body issues.
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100Brilliant, blistering account of the many ways fame deforms a star, his family and his fans.
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100A marvelous, uncommonly observant, and unexpectedly rousing group portrait.
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100An engrossing new drama from France.
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100The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh.
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100While Look at Me at times falls into familiar plotting, it never offers false hope or false characters.
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90What makes Look at Me such a deeply satisfying experience is its ability to combine insightful character portraits like this with wickedly funny situations that slyly skewer all-too-human weaknesses.
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88This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all.
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88The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they're more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake.
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88A witty and psychologically perceptive look at the Parisian literary scene.
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88With a light, sometimes hilarious touch, Look at Me deflates the pretensions and self-obsessed nature of a group of wealthy Parisian literati, but its observations about the effects of fame and success and our natural desire to fan them as high as they can go, apply to anyone within range of reality-TV culture.
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88In lesser hands, all this might border on misanthropy. But Jaoui's direction, plus the note-perfect cast, manage two redeeming feats:
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80Directed by Agnès Jaoui, who made the equally delightful "The Taste of Others," this comedy of manners with a serious purpose centers on a group of loosely connected neurotics, all working in the rarefied worlds of amateur chorales.
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80A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.
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80Punchy dialogue, excellent thesping and a real feel for the universal tuning fork of great classical music make this a prime candidate for international arthouse play.
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80The latest in a series of stiletto-sharp social comedies by the French filmmakers Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui.
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80A movie of biting social observation. And it masterfully avoids Manichaean simplicity.
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80A tender, indignant, but also very worldly movie.
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78Look at Me marks the character's shift from being the object of attention to the subject of her own dreams.
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75While Jaoui's film is interesting to watch, it dawdles enough to lose its storytelling grip.
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75Look at Me is on the talky side, but like Jaoui's directing debut, "The Taste of Others," it offers uniformly excellent performances and smart observations on social and family interactions.
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75It is for a particular audience - those who like films that concentrate on character rather than plot, and who aren't put off by subtitles.
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70The film satisfies in much the same way Allen's movie-a-year comedies used to satisfy.
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70Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing.
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70Smart, absorbing movie.
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70Jaoui directs with flow and affection, and she plays Sylvia sensitively. Bacri has the right middle-aged assortment of humors.
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70The French title is Comme une image ("like an image"), but Tennessee Williams's phrase "the catastrophe of success" seems more appropriate.
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63Look at Me is a virtuoso exercise in domestic tension - with the emphasis on "exercise."
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60The multitalented Jaoui and Bacri excel on every level; her direction is efficient and unobtrusive, their script dissects the nuances of corruption by celebrity with a razor-sharp scalpel, and they deliver a pair of subtly unsparing performances.
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50This is a bleak, unresolved film, with no release. What keeps it from being a mortal bummer is the music-exquisite sacred choral works, plus Mozart.