Oh Mercy!
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51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 16, 2019
Arnaud Desplechin evinces a glancing touch with showing how social tension and need inform law and crime. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 24, 2019
Rambling but strangely compelling, Oh Mercy!’s documentary bedrock gives the investigation at the heart of the film a real authenticity. From around its midpoint, this uneven film becomes a riveting, compassionate interrogation drama. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jul 11, 2019
The only real gravitas comes from the reliably excellent Zem, here doing minor wonders with the clichéd role of the good-hearted, unwaveringly calm human lie detector. Read full review
67
The PlaylistBradley WarrenMay 24, 2019
As a policier, Oh Mercy! is an affectionate homage to crime cinema but also an engaging variation on the genre’s tropes. Read full review
50
VarietyJay WeissbergMay 24, 2019
Although Desplechin claims his main interest is to get inside the two women’s characters, pushing away moral absolutes about guilt and innocence (yes, “Crime and Punishment” is a key influence), the couple come off as the least interesting people on screen. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijMay 24, 2019
There's little in terms of the tension associated with police thrillers, but it's also not a socio-realist drama or a character study, instead echoing parts of these genres at different times so there's a constant sense of deja vu and reminders of other, better films without the material ever really coming into its own. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 24, 2019
Forestier and Seydoux are both fantastically desperate as dead end citizens who met each other at a very dangerous time in their lives, but Desplechin fails to make full use of his actors; instead of allowing them to shade in their characters, he pummels the audience into an ambiguous state of forced sympathy. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 24, 2019
It is a drama that attempts to behave like a tough police procedural in a quasi-Melville vein, but also like a musing prose-poem about the vanity of human wishes. Read full review
40
CineVueMartyn ConterioMay 24, 2019
Some actors can play anything, but asking super-posh and glamourous Seydoux to play dirt poor is an ask too far. Read full review
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