The Crime Is Mine
Music Box Films | Release Date: December 25, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaDec 24, 2023
The Crime is Mine is the epitome of a comfort film, decked out in old-Hollywood nostalgia and unfolding at an auctioneer’s clip. Its fun and games are deceptively smart — all the more because the women know their angles so triumphantly well. Read full review
88
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldFeb 14, 2024
Do yourself a favor and go see The Crime Is Mine, a delicious bit of French froth from master director François Ozon. Read full review
80
EmpireMiriam BalanescuOct 25, 2024
Though not as risk-taking as his earlier work, François Ozon’s fanfic for the Jazz Age steers clear of pastiche and is utterly charming — throwing a few curveballs to keep you on your toes. Read full review
80
Screen DailyLisa NesselsonNov 1, 2023
A willfully theatrical, proudly retro yet delectably pertinent confection. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloJan 2, 2024
Ozon has a ball poking fun at a corrupt justice system that shuffles one criminal to the next crime-out-of-convenience and imagines how public opinion would fashion Madeleine into a feminist symbol. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChris BarsantiDec 19, 2023
It draws on the giddily rules-trampling pre-war mood as Chicago. But while its protagonists are as driven by a desire for fame and money as the amoral starlets of the Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse musical, the film has more than grinning cynicism at its core. Read full review
73
Paste MagazineB. PantherDec 20, 2023
Though it lacks a more exigent purpose, The Crime Is Mine has layers of textbook farce decorated with a confectioner’s critique. We rarely see such quaint delights in cinemas these days. Read full review
70
Little White LiesEmily MaskellOct 21, 2024
Tereszkiewicz and Marder delight as a double act, but it’s Huppert who steals the show with a cunning smile. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJan 2, 2024
The movie is one of those pointed and prickly farces, like “8 Women” (2002) and “Potiche” (2011), that Ozon tends to scatter among his more solemn projects, as if to keep his comic hand in. The dramatis personae are boldly drawn and, let us say, broadly performed. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenDec 22, 2023
The Crime Is Mine has a borderline-cartoonish buoyancy. If it’s not as funny as it wants to be, that’s because most of the characters are given a single note to play. But they do it with irresistible gusto. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 24, 2023
It’s a film less about any frenetic onscreen shenanigans as it is about its own mood board of sartorial and cinematic reference points — Jean Renoir, Billy Wilder, some vintage Chanel — and as such it slips down as fizzily and forgettably as a bottle of off-brand sparkling wine. Read full review
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