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Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
AwardsWatchJun 5, 2026
Seydoux and Schneider, fine actors within the own right, are completely wasted, and are window dressing for one of the ineptest films made of the decade so far, that also borderlines on offensive as it wastes not only these actor’s talents, but the time of the audience watching them go through the motions for Harari’s satisfaction. As a film critic, I’ve never once walked out of a screening in my life, but The Unknown almost became that first title for me to do so as it became as pointless of an exercise I’ve seen in recent memory.
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Next Best PictureMay 20, 2026
The film seems disinterested in carrying on any discussion itself, even in an obtuse way. Perhaps that’s the idea: that we’re meant to completely project our assessment onto the film rather than follow nonexistent leads from Harari as to his intention. But ultimately, the film is too vacant, too aimless, and worst of all, too dull to inspire much worthwhile discussion.
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May 20, 2026
In the art-house cinema of enigma, there’s often a thin line between the mysterious and the murky. Arthur Harari’s The Unknown treads this line with varying degrees of daring and discomfort, but ultimately never feels quite confident enough to lead us compellingly through the labyrinth of its bizarre body swap narrative.
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The Film StageMay 20, 2026
The Unknown has the tough mission of turning a beguiling body-swap premise into an engaging, well-paced work in its own right, and casting is crucial to achieve such. With a Cannes mainstay like Léa Seydoux leading alongside an actor as versatile as Schneider, The Unknown earns its keep, for all the eerie undercurrents fueling its uneven narrative.
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May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026
With all due apologies to any real-world sufferers of supernatural body-switching, who perhaps regard the film’s high-mindedness as a welcome corrective to the condition’s flippantly comedic treatment in pop culture more generally, the real unknown of The Unknown is the reason behind making a body-swap movie feel so wholly disembodied.
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