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88Presented with an economy and emotional cool that add to, rather than subtract from, its dramatic impact, The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.
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85While the story pivots on an actual girl-who-cried-wolf incident, this elegantly constructed movie is about much more than that.
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83Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Téchiné brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off.
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80Best known for 1994's "The Wild Reeds," Techine has been a director for more than 30 years, and the fluidity of his polished, intelligent, at times enigmatic works make him someone whose films are always worth watching.
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75What the film is really about is social embarrassment, and Bleistein's clear-headed, calm understanding that his old friend has a stupid daughter who has caused fraudulent trouble for a great many people.
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75Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne gives a smoldering performance as Jeanne.
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75What it's really about - and this sounds so boring, and so nothing, when in fact it's really rather wonderful - is people. Just regular people, a mother and daughter, whose lives are observed with economy and precision, and with an eye for the telling detail and the tense, revealing moment.
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75A compelling piece of cinema.
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Andre Techine's many admirers will not be disappointed by his latest offering, The Girl on the Train, but they might be hard-pressed to define it.
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For better or worse, there isn't a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into a tone poem.
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70The film can be described as a character study or a fictionalized slice of terribly real life. Mostly, though, it is an inquiry into the mysteries of other people.
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70From this polarizing lie, Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne ("Rosetta"), whose radiant physicality threatens to eclipse even Catherine Deneuve.
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67Téchiné has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth. It's a distortion that Téchiné, with a passivity bordering on perversity, does nothing to dispel.
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67Téchiné's movies are always worth seeing, and The Girl on the Train, for all its faults, has moments that resonate
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63Duvauchelle is actually the best thing in the movie.
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63Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.
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60A smart and incisive look at race, identity and dysfunction in modern French society.
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60For those of us who've been fans of Dequenne since her role as a blanc-trash Belgian waif in "Rosetta" (1999), her subtle portrayal of the pathological perpetrator proves that she's monumentally talented.
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58A movie that, like its title character, is meandering, unstructured and only dimly aware of what it's doing.
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50The narrative lacks a magnetic north; it encompasses so much, and the needle swings from Jeanne's predicament to her mother's dismay and to the support that comes from a celebrated Jewish lawyer, played by the ever-compelling Michel Blanc.
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50Techine glosses over the story's most potent issue: France's complicated relationship with its Jewish community.
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