Avis Metacritic

Though you get caught up in the criminal element (you really want these people to get away with it), you're also fascinated by who to trust. It's an unusual dance between the awkward and plain that becomes romantic and thrilling -- a subtly impressive feat to say the least.

Expertly sinister, office-as-devil's-playground French thriller.

Since you can't read my lips, read my words: See this movie.

Fascinating and transgressive love story.

It's a wholly amoral movie, but it's honestly amoral. And that's a relief for the audience.

Audiard keeps things shaky, grim, claustrophobic, doomed. His film has the feel of documentary, as he follows Clara through the daily grind that pulverizes her. We're in her head, literally.

A gritty thriller on the theme of the con man conned. It works as well as it does thanks to a captivating lead performance by Emmanuelle Devos and the superb direction of Jacques Audiard.

The two leads don't have sexual chemistry together, but that's part of the point.

Devos is especially fine as a woman whose inner solitude carries depth charges.

The first half is a well-acted psychological drama, but the second half is standard thriller fare with more action than insight.