The Workshop
Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 23, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesJennifer SzalaiMar 22, 2018
It’s a measure of this film’s stealthy brilliance that it blurs the line between empathy and exploitation. Read full review
90
Screen DailyDan FainaruMar 19, 2018
The Workshop conveys a stunningly authentic portrait of French youth today; their class, racial and occupational concerns. Read full review
90
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 19, 2018
A sly, supple and repeatedly surprising collision of literary, moral and political lines of debate that marks an enthralling return to form for writer-director Laurent Cantet. Read full review
88
Washington PostAlan ZilbermanApr 11, 2018
It is not exactly a thriller, yet its plausibility will inspire very real anxiety. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeNov 29, 2018
A third act that stumbles into genre territory loses focus temporarily, but is redeemed by a scene that celebrates the power of words above all else. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 5, 2018
The trappings are thriller-ish, but the playing field is recognizably timely: a fast-changing economic/cultural world in which some youth are up for the challenge to reconcile a vanished past with a roiling present — France's terrorism woes are explicitly referenced — while others are dangerously indifferent to it. Read full review
80
The GuardianWendy IdeMar 19, 2018
It’s a film which demonstrates that debate, the exchange of ideas, can be as thrilling as any ramped up action flick. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMar 19, 2018
Featuring sharp performances from Marina Fois (Polisse) and promising newcomer Matthieu Lucci, the film shows Cantet returning to form...with a story that pursues the themes of his best work while underscoring some of the issues currently facing his homeland. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireMar 23, 2018
For myself, I couldn’t avoid the irony that, in finding it ultimately rather superficial and self-satisfied in that particular Parisian way, I was echoing Antoine’s criticism of Olivia’s writing. Read full review
75
TheWrapBen CrollMar 19, 2018
Though the film occasionally assumes the airs of a slow-burning thriller, the overall product remains a firmly intellectual exercise. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayMar 18, 2018
Matthieu Lucci deftly carries the weight of all the symptoms that The Workshop loads upon Antoine, a resonant character whose inscrutability is at once dangerous, sympathetic, and eerily apt. Read full review
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