Leaving
IFC Films | Release Date: October 1, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
9
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75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsDec 17, 2010
In the infidelity drama Leaving, British reserve gets overtaken by French passion, and the subsequent events have the horrific momentum of a slow-motion car crash. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 28, 2010
There have been many adultery movies over the years, but Leaving has some aspects that make it different and interesting. Read full review
75
ObserverRex Reed
Kristin Scott Thomas breathes new life into a woman who was invented by Flaubert and copied by Francoise Sagan. Read full review
75
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
Leaving is a bit too dry and controlled, as well as too relentlessly bleak, to be a satisfying melodrama. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The plot isn't a new one (remember Lady Chatterley?), but Corsini gives it a few twists and turns that keep matters fresh and suspenseful. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Kristin Scott Thomas is the best though not the only reason to see Leaving. Read full review
60
EmpireLiz Beardsworth
A vital, if slight, study of selfishness and fractured relationships, Leaving is illuminated by the odd, off-balancing twist. Read full review
60
VarietyJordan Mintzer
Tightly wound and crafted, with robust performances by Kristin Scott Thomas and recurrent Spanish Don Juan Sergi Lopez, the picture offers a rough, no-frills take on a story as old as France itself. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
If Leaving is a romantic parable, it is a dark and depressing one, emphasizing not the sensuality of attraction but rather the obsessive side of romantic behavior. This is mad love for sure, and that is not usually a pretty picture. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJan 13, 2011
The only reason to see Leaving - and it's not a bad reason at all - is for the sight of Kristin Scott Thomas in a rare happy mood. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBernard Besserglik
Scott Thomas is an accomplished actress who can do passion as well as she can do light comedy. But she never quite convinces as a woman prepared to endure every humiliation to pursue her dream of a new life. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Here, a contemporary French white woman who yearns for liberté, égalité and fraternité is as much a prisoner of her circumstances as women were once upon a time and still are in some cultures, though truly it's all the clichés in this film that make her a captive. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The class issues make them pariahs, the love scenes belong on Cinemax After Dark, and the emotions writer-director Catherine Corsini believes are so adult are clichéd. Still, Scott Thomas is beguiling as usual, the one expected thing that's welcome here Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
In any language, the actress (Kristin Scott Thomas) does what she can to best serve her scripts, even when they're hopelessly beneath her. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Leaving is a tawdry potboiler slathered riotously in portent, complete with a lamebrained detour into vengeance that only Claude Chabrol would be able to pull off. Read full review
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