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88 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

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  • Starring: Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard
  • Summary: After losing his job, Vincent (Recoing) can't bring himself to tell his wife (Viard) and children, so he wanders around France during the day, while they think he's at work, and finds himself on a moral and ethical journey of conscience that challenges the notions he's formed about life. (ThinkFilm)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Cantet has rich insights into this material, and brings them alive through sensitive acting and powerful filmmaking.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    100
    There's piercing sadness, and fury, too, in this Everyman's isolation, and Cantet is singularly skilled at evoking the universal condition of such tragic ordinariness.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Looks great but moves like molasses, is more interesting than truly involving.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12