Illegal
Film Movement | Release Date: March 25, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoMar 25, 2011
Anne Coesens, wife of the film's director, Olivier Masset-Depasse, gives a strong performance as Tania. Read full review
70
VarietyBoyd van HoeijMar 22, 2011
A prolonged stay in a Belgian immigration detention center causes more than a few chinks in the armor of a strong-willed Russian femme in Illegal, Olivier Masset-Depasse's fascinating study of perseverance in the face of subhuman treatment. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 22, 2011
Illegal has caused a stir in Belgium, and the sincerity of the movie can't be denied. But there's little emotion to hold on to, apart from a mother's impotent concern about her wayward teenage son (Gontcharov), still on the outside. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 24, 2011
One problem is that while Mr. Masset-Depasse frames Tania's status in vague political terms, he doesn't make an argument. Instead he creates heroes and villains in what is, by turns, a prison flick, a psychological thriller and a maternal melodrama. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMar 22, 2011
Blunt, loud, and showboaty, Illegal suffers even more when compared with another recent Liège-set film about the horrors faced by paperless immigrants: the Dardennes' "Lorna's Silence." Read full review
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