Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Examiner
In Criminal Lovers, the "Bonnie and Clyde" model of killing-as-erotica gets a shrewd, funny, decidedly French workout.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Both the leads are scarily good, and Ozon imbues his troubling tale with jarring blasts of light and the sun-dappled beauty of the natural world.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Has its own sense of logic and integrity that demand a kind of begrudged respect.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Francois Ozon, perhaps France's hottest director of the moment, is often better creating stylish visuals than dramatically credible situations, but Criminal Lovers is never boring.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
"Grimm's Fairy Tales" were pretty grim, but Criminal Lovers crosses the line and sexualizes your worst fears.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Imagine "Hansel and Gretel" by way of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
At once arch, derivative, and, in the end, bizarrely lyrical.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a passionate vision thick with eroticism, but the musky atmosphere gets a little thick and murky.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Straddles a number of genres -- horror film, lovers on the lam, fairy tale -- and gives them all a cool, knowing spin.
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Christian Science Monitor
Its eventual failure to make sense indicates that it's intended more as a surrealistic fable than an ordinary sex-and-violence adventure.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
This remains the one and only fusion of ''Deliverance'' and ''Hansel and Gretel'' that I ever hope to see.
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