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Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: [Director] Lafosse's frustrating, yet beautifully elegiac coda emphasizes the point that his production and storytelling style have been making throughout: Private Property is about processes, not conclusions. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: It wouldn't be accurate to call Private Property a thriller, but it has a slow-burning intensity that's oddly suspenseful, and it shifts gears effectively once the tense family dynamic suddenly changes. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: An impeccably acted character drama revolving around a mother and her teenage twin sons, Private Property shows how strong and how terrifying the bonds within families can be. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The effect of all this acting out is less erotic than helplessly childish. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Rhythmically, narratively and emotionally propulsive, this Joachim Lafosse film finds the almost predictably magnificent Isabelle Huppert as a woman of a certain age, trying to swim to the surface with a weight around her leg -- make that two weights. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The performances are impeccable, but while director Joachim Lafosse carefully creates an atmosphere of suffocating dread, he could have let a little more air into this simmering hothouse. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Huppert is, as usual, superb, proving yet again that she is the finest actress working in France today. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Lafosse has made a mordant movie beyond genres -- and one that is too mesmerizing to miss. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What draws us into "Private Property" is how so many things happen under the surface, never commented upon. At any given moment, we cannot say for sure what the characters fully feel, since they often act at right angles to their emotions. Read more