L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie 2010

Stephen Holden, New York Times: If some of the plot details defy credibility, Romain Duris's electrifying performance makes you overlook any inconsistencies, as his likable character becomes a man on the run barely able to stifle his panic. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Director Eric Lartigau tells the story slowly, less interested in suspense than in character. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: For most of the way, right up until a hastily contrived and deeply unsatisfying ending, the film perceptively sketches a fractured identity, a man who enters a new life carrying painful remnants of the old. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Duris is excellent, his hair and eyes growing wilder with each step of the journey, and he has solid support ... Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A dark little fable, the story of two separate roads that briefly intersect - and what happens when a man suddenly jumps from one mapped journey to the other. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: This existential thriller is about a person who seeks personal freedom by becoming somebody else. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: The movie has the intense psychological focus of the late Claude Chabrol, if not Chabrol's graceful camerawork. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Takes familiar material - involving a violent crime and an assumed identity - and nudges it just enough to keep us interested for most of the ride. Read more

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The Big Picture" ends perhaps a bit too ambiguously, but there's something refreshing about its faith in the moviegoer's intelligence. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Even [Duris] can't fully salvage a last act that clumsily tries to sell the notion that white-knight altruism is the ultimate creative satisfaction. Read more

Chris Packham, Village Voice: For most of the film, Lartigau creates the tension of a Hitchcockian thriller solely through Paul's interior struggle ... Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It moves, with supple muscularity, toward a twisty and satisfying conclusion. Read more