The presence of Binoche in Let the Sunshine In is a bit of brilliance that taunts and challenges the viewer...

Full Review | Nov 8, 2023

It’s admirable and eminently sympathetic, and I was exhausted by the end. This is not a bad thing.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2023

It's a thoughtful, serious, and multilayered film of teary-eyed breakdowns and fleeting bursts of elation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Watch this for Denis and Binoche, a wonderful collaboration.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2021

Binoche's intimate performance as the perpetual victim of her own poor judgement and self-defeating relationship negotiations is convincingly obsessive, while Denis shows skill and insight...

Full Review | Oct 12, 2021

It all builds up to an unexpected but charming ending...

Full Review | Oct 12, 2021

Denis is trying something different...I adore it. Let the Sun Shine In feels much looser and lighter than her other films but it still retains all of her visual language and style.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2020

[Claire Denis's] skill in framing her protagonist's various trysts, moods, and dialogues, sometimes even setting them to music, is matchless.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2020

The flirty fizz of the genre comes with a shot of top-shelf pathos; the laughs are few and the sighs are heavy.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2020

What director Claire Denis and her co-screenwriter Christine Angot clearly set out to do... is to present a stinging diatribe against the awfulness of dating and the scarcity of decent, sensitive men. And on that level, it succeeds spectacularly.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2019

Although there's certainly never been any doubt as to the range of La Binoche, the performer shoulders the entire fragile frame of the narrative with stunning aplomb, walking a fine line between relatability and unhinged desperado of amour fou.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2019

Frustrated or not, [Juliette] Binoche shines bright in this film.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2019

Juliette Binoche is typically terrific in what proves to be a middling effort from esteemed writer-director Claire Denis.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2019

Stay open to life, never close down. To me, Let The Sunshine In seems a great film.

Full Review | May 1, 2019

Binoche's tender, honest exploration of Isabelle's emotional roller coaster will resonant deeply for many women.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2019

The filmmaker and her character are equally untethered, enquiring women, not so much concerned with securing a definitive answer as engaging with the possibilities raised by their searches.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2019

Binoche is amazingly good in this role and it's no small thing for a contemporary film to celebrate the sexuality of a middle-aged woman. But Juliette's self-absorption becomes somewhat tiresome after a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2019

It's a story about people who spend more time talking about their lives than inhabiting them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 23, 2019

From the interior of Binoche, is where the beautiful light comes from (whitish, like a beautiful autumn day) to which the title refers and which, at the same time, is what actually illuminates this charming film by Denis. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2019

Demonstrates that realistic behavior -- self-defeating whims, conversations that go nowhere, distracted small talk, a visit with a psychic that is more banal than dramatic -- is so alien to the moviegoing experience that most viewers cannot recognize it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2019