The Intruder
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5.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 4 out of 10

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  1. Wm
    Aug 20, 2006
    9
    If you crave any sort of narrative thread, certainty, or literal message this film wil probably annoy you. If, instead, you surrender to Denis' fascinating storytelling, allow the gorgeous cinematography to saturate you and cherish the gaps in understanding that give the film its meaning then you'll emerge from viewing this as one does after falling fully clothed into a river with an erratic and often powerful current: grateful, disturbed and breathless. Life, like "The Intruder," isn't Cartesian. Get over it and get with it.… Expand
  2. VanC.
    Dec 30, 2005
    9
    No one makes visual poetry better than Claire Denis. This movie has same slow pacing and gorgeous photography as Beau Travail, but with an even more elusive plot and even less dialogue. Give yourself over to it and you'll be rewarded with ecstacy.

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Metascore
85 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    One of the most visually sumptuous movies you will see this year.
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  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    100
    The texture and intensity of the odyssey makes it spellbinding.
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  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    100
    The Intruder, is a decisive breakthrough--her (Claire Denis) most poetic and primal film to date, as thrilling as it is initially baffling.
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