The movie's evolution is surprisingly explosive considering how intimate it seems. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2023

Both a terrific black comedy and tension-filled crime caper...

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 11, 2023

While its unpredictability delivers sporadic laughs, The Innocent’s strongest weapon is its unexpected heart, which is reinforced by its solid performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2023

Actor-filmmaker Louis Garrel inventively packs the screen with chatty characters, slapstick silliness and tense action, and he also pulls a range of story strands in often surprising directions. So watching it feels like taking a rather wild ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2023

The film (which Garrel directs as well as stars in) gathers a madcap momentum, in the way that really bad life choices are apt to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2023

This film has enchanting performances and greater depths and fewer cliches than it could easily have slipped into.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2023

... A frothy heist movie with an unexpectedly tender heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2023

Overall, this is a comic drama, and one way to sum it up would be that it's not funny enough to be a great comedy and not coherent enough to be a strong drama. Still, it has freshness and all sorts of odd little surprises.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

The Innocent is many (too many?) things in one film -- double romcom, drama, comedy, thriller and a crime caper. No matter which, the film is fun and fast-moving entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

The film manages to be stylish and sluggish, snappy and choppy all at once. To fall in love you have to be a good actor, it seems to be telling us, yet you also have to steal hearts and this is a movie that doesn’t quite pull that scam off.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2023

Garrel’s The Innocent deftly mixes comic family melodrama with genre thrills in this pacy, emotive thriller with a killer cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2023

It’s a broad, enjoyable, lighthearted movie with a fair few not-insignificant plot holes, but a genuinely surprising storyline that keeps you guessing to the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2023

A fun, soapy caper – earnestly silly and very warm.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2023

The Innocent's French pop-synth soundtrack gifts the already fast-paced film with a marvellous sense of bounce, but also reflects exactly what the movie is: a supremely finessed, funny, endearing and engaging flick that echoes for everyone.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2023

“The Innocent” deals with serous things, like the prison system, crime and the throes of middle-age marriage. But, its heart is in the humor and it is where the pleasure is.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2023

The Innocent’s manic pace and screwball situations feel just far enough away from the naturalistic, ever so slightly-presentational style of Garrel’s father that it’s clear he’s forging his own path.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2023

Garrel’s script continually references the art of acting, his own character amusingly the least convincing at pretending…

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 17, 2023

The Innocent thoroughly marches to the beat of its own drum, a tender comedy that finds ample meaning within the simple mechanics of narrative.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2023

Rarely do films maintain the delicate balance between comic and serious moments for their entire storyline. And yet French director Louis Garrel does just that in his third feature The Innocent, an ironic title as amusing as it is playful.

Full Review | May 31, 2023

Expect to be surprised and expect the surprises to tickle and delight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2023