Demonlover 2002

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: You'll be as transfixed as you are utterly confused. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Unlike almost every other sexy modern thriller (especially most recent studio blockbusters), this one gives you a lot to think about. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The entrancing visual imagery goes a long way toward filling in the screenplay's gaps in logic. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: It's gripping and provocative, making effective use of actor Charles Berling and the music of Sonic Youth. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Expect demonlover to become a midnight-movie staple in the coming years. And expect shards of it to roil your dreams for weeks. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: It's an exasperating, irresistible, must-see mess of a movie about life in the modern world and so very good that even when its story finally crashes and burns the filmmaking remains unscathed. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: For an hour or so, Demonlover is an entrancingly devious soap opera of executive decadence. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Demonlover is so incomprehensible that you can't readily accuse it of being anything but almost unwatchable. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The story is creepily compelling in its hushed vision of the cold, gleaming, abstract surfaces of the new multinational conglomerate. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A visually stylish movie that equates and fuses high-stakes corporate negotiations with the video-game mentality. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A tiresome exercise in self-demonization. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I was struck by the complete lack of morality. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The movie feels like a shambles, and yet it's a stunning example of a director in complete control of his material. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Well-scripted, well-acted and occasionally sexy, but just isn't all that interesting. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Time Out: A silly, oddly disagreeable movie. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Rather than deepening the mystery and sense of intoxication, the picture soon becomes one prolonged and very bad hangover. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Disturbing, darkly beautiful. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Meant to be a sleek, dark, disturbing David Cronenberg-style thriller, Olivier Assayas's film is just an annoying concoction. Read more