A Matter of Taste
Attitude Films | Release Date: September 7, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
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Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
The writing, by Rapp and Catherine Dussart, is exquisite, and the performers, including Francois Truffaut's old colleague Jean-Pierre Leaud as a magistrate, are all first-rate. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
An elegant study of devious mind games and emotional perversion, it makes the strangest of psychological dynamics plausible and involving. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Deliciously dark tale of insidious seduction. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Rapp's creepy, ghoulishly funny and, finally, touching new film. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
This deliciously nasty French deconstruction of male pecking orders, directed by Bernard Rapp, should send a pleasant shiver down the spine of anyone who has ever obsessed about wanting to please a devious and manipulative boss. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A neat little almost-thriller, this witty French diversion manages to mess with your head with little apparent effort.
75
Boston GlobeLeighton Klein
A Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown.
70
New Times (L.A.)Jean Oppenheimer
The two lead performances are so good it contains more emotional depth than it probably has a right to. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
There are also food scenes that will whet your appetite. But somehow a satisfying climax never makes it out of the oven. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This psychological thriller takes its time and never delivers the big shocks genre fans raised on its American cousins have come to expect. But it works up a chilly atmosphere of creeping dread, and the tension. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
A Matter of Taste's largest handicap is restraint: It's too tasteful. The climactic crisis is a broken leg, and the off-screen denouement is unimaginative. Read full review
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