Metacritic-Rezensionen

In Criminal Lovers, the "Bonnie and Clyde" model of killing-as-erotica gets a shrewd, funny, decidedly French workout.

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.

Has its own sense of logic and integrity that demand a kind of begrudged respect.

May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.

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.

Imagine "Hansel and Gretel" by way of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.

It's a passionate vision thick with eroticism, but the musky atmosphere gets a little thick and murky.

Straddles a number of genres -- horror film, lovers on the lam, fairy tale -- and gives them all a cool, knowing spin.

This remains the one and only fusion of ''Deliverance'' and ''Hansel and Gretel'' that I ever hope to see.