The tension is never crushing, as it would be in an American job. Instead, it grows by increments, until you realize the movie, in its quiet way, has you snared entirely.Read Full Review »
83
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps.Read Full Review »
80
The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism. Whose psychology, and which reality, remains ambiguous even after the tart, delicious final twist.Read Full Review »
80
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Manohla Dargis
Ozon misses some chances with Sarah, but Rampling doesn't skip a beat. Freed from the burden of likability, the actress pushes the character from near-farce to near-tragedy, without once appealing to sentimentalism.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
After it is over, you will want to go back and think things through again, and I can help you by suggesting there is one, and only one, interpretation that resolves all of the difficulties, but if I told you, you would have to kill me.Read Full Review »
75
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It's Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance, not to mention a nude scene that shows off a body Demi Moore would envy. These two make it seductive fun to be fooled.Read Full Review »
75
Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Very much a genre picture, relying on notions of suspense, surprise, and comeuppance. Indeed, at the center of this movie is a question of whether what we're seeing is really to be believed.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
But the ending, at once ambiguous and obvious, is a letdown -- a frustratingly literal-minded, or literary-minded, conceit.Read Full Review »
75
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
While not stunningly original, is fresh and compelling enough to hold the viewer's attention through its entire running length.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Mike Clark
With a little sex, some mystery, a little sex, an appealing title and a little sex, France's Swimming Pool has what it takes to become an art house audience magnet, especially amid the heat of summer.Read Full Review »
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