88
Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversRecoing gives a performance that won't soon be forgotten. Neither will Time Out. It's a great movie.
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittCantet has rich insights into this material, and brings them alive through sensitive acting and powerful filmmaking.
- 100The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThis movie makes one grateful that a serious European art cinema still exists. [15 April 2002, p. 88]
- 90Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumPowerful.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranNot just an especially subtle and thoughtful psychological drama, it's a provocative, even an unnerving one as well.
- 80Film ThreatRich ClineFilm ThreatRich ClineThis is brilliant filmmaking.
- 80Village VoiceDennis LimVillage VoiceDennis LimRecoing's meta-performance is an unemphatic marvel, his placid countenance stretched tight over telltale flickers: a quickly suppressed smirk of incredulous delight, a nervous twitch of chagrin, an abrupt pang of guilt.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsA well-crafted indictment of the dark side of the modern work ethic.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickLooks great but moves like molasses, is more interesting than truly involving.