Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages 2000

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: At the center of the film -- the real reason it was made -- is Binoche, one of the genuinely radiant presences in movies today. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Haneke has a sure way with actors -- allowing them to seem to be living rather than acting their roles -- that matches his ability to capture the rhythms and routines of everyday life with a graceful, unstudied ease. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Code Unknown gets at the ache and angst of the human condition in ways that shiver with telling detail and the machinations of real life. It's powerful. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Beautifully shot and acted, particularly by Juliette Binoche. Read more

Jonathan Foreman, New York Post: Even more impressive is the way Haneke evokes violence without showing it, and whips up tension and dread without music or any of the manipulative tricks so popular among Hollywood filmmakers. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: A searing, structurally ingenious look at racial tension on the streets of Paris. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A procession of long virtuoso takes that typically begin and end in the middle of actions or sentences, constituting not only an interactive jigsaw puzzle but a thrilling narrative experiment. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The wonderful Binoche ... hot-wires what could have been a coldly intellectual film. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Awash in ravishing images ... that will haunt you long after you leave the theater. Read more

Anita Gates, New York Times: Unfortunately, [Haneke's] often too cryptic, which leaves viewers still trying to make connections when they should already be reacting to the moral lessons implied by them. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Though it has some lovely moments, Code refuses to be cracked. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Code Unknown is a film that will thrill connoisseurs of alienation and loneliness, and I say that with the utmost sincerity. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Despite the film's Bressonian rigours, its emotional force should finally give the lie to Haneke's reputation as a coldly academic film-maker. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: All this unrelenting bleakness would be fine if it went someplace interesting, but the film's themes never coalesce into anything beyond basic existential angst. Read more

Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Haneke's most expansive and, oddly, hopeful work -- not a gaze into the void, but a fierce attempt to scramble out of it. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The violence, in short, remains unseen, but that makes it no easier to bear; what lurks and wails behind a wall is, for Haneke, the most reliable wellspring of dread. Read more