Look at Me
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: April 1, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh. Read full review
100
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
This audience-pleaser is smart and acerbic. Jaoui has an uncanny ear - as director, co-writer and part of the inspired ensemble cast - for human foibles, self-deception, celebrity worship and female body issues. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
An engrossing new drama from France. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
A marvelous, uncommonly observant, and unexpectedly rousing group portrait. Read full review
100
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
While Look at Me at times falls into familiar plotting, it never offers false hope or false characters. Read full review
100
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Brilliant, blistering account of the many ways fame deforms a star, his family and his fans. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
What makes Look at Me such a deeply satisfying experience is its ability to combine insightful character portraits like this with wickedly funny situations that slyly skewer all-too-human weaknesses. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
In lesser hands, all this might border on misanthropy. But Jaoui's direction, plus the note-perfect cast, manage two redeeming feats: Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A witty and psychologically perceptive look at the Parisian literary scene. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they're more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake. Read full review
88
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
With a light, sometimes hilarious touch, Look at Me deflates the pretensions and self-obsessed nature of a group of wealthy Parisian literati, but its observations about the effects of fame and success and our natural desire to fan them as high as they can go, apply to anyone within range of reality-TV culture. Read full review
80
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Punchy dialogue, excellent thesping and a real feel for the universal tuning fork of great classical music make this a prime candidate for international arthouse play. Read full review
80
The New YorkerDavid Denby
A tender, indignant, but also very worldly movie. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Directed by Agnès Jaoui, who made the equally delightful "The Taste of Others," this comedy of manners with a serious purpose centers on a group of loosely connected neurotics, all working in the rarefied worlds of amateur chorales. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The latest in a series of stiletto-sharp social comedies by the French filmmakers Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui.
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
A movie of biting social observation. And it masterfully avoids Manichaean simplicity. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Look at Me marks the character's shift from being the object of attention to the subject of her own dreams. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
While Jaoui's film is interesting to watch, it dawdles enough to lose its storytelling grip. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
Look at Me is on the talky side, but like Jaoui's directing debut, "The Taste of Others," it offers uniformly excellent performances and smart observations on social and family interactions. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It is for a particular audience - those who like films that concentrate on character rather than plot, and who aren't put off by subtitles. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The film satisfies in much the same way Allen's movie-a-year comedies used to satisfy. Read full review
70
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Jaoui directs with flow and affection, and she plays Sylvia sensitively. Bacri has the right middle-aged assortment of humors. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The French title is Comme une image ("like an image"), but Tennessee Williams's phrase "the catastrophe of success" seems more appropriate. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Smart, absorbing movie. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Look at Me is a virtuoso exercise in domestic tension - with the emphasis on "exercise." Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The multitalented Jaoui and Bacri excel on every level; her direction is efficient and unobtrusive, their script dissects the nuances of corruption by celebrity with a razor-sharp scalpel, and they deliver a pair of subtly unsparing performances. Read full review
50
SlateDavid Edelstein
This is a bleak, unresolved film, with no release. What keeps it from being a mortal bummer is the music-exquisite sacred choral works, plus Mozart. Read full review
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