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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Clever and exceedingly well-acted. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Swimming Pool offers something few other movies this summer can match: A dreamy, intoxicating sensuality. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I loved every inch of this movie. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Shimmering with eroticism and simmering with the tension of unfamiliarity - we never know, right up to the flourish of its end, quite where this film is going. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A fine sunlit noir, oozing sensuality and menace. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Mr. Ozon's first English-language film, is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously artificial confection and an acute piece of psychological realism. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A delectable and daring psychological drama. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Swimming Pool is a lark of a thriller, and a mesmerizing one at that. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: This is the first film Ozon has shot in English, and his attempt to explain Sarah may be a bid to soften her and help the film's commercial viability. Luckily for him, his actress stays in character. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Ozon takes a long time setting up his story, but the interplay between Sagnier and Rampling is electric. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: In taking one sort of movie and seemingly teasing it into another, the director and his leading ladies have made a lovely argument about where the real mysteries lie in our lives. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Works as a character study and a quiet thriller. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Ozon means to have perversity speak for him, but in the end, it doesn't have a lot to say. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Swimming Pool smolders with held-back eroticism and brain-teasing enigmas. Read more
Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: Swimming Pool has the edgy chill of early Polanski. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Whether the movie leaves you confused or angry, you will be stimulated to long discussion afterward. How often does that happen these days? Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Two parts psychological thriller and one part pretentious French art-house head-scratcher that leaves you mumbling, 'Duh.' Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Swimming Pool is more an exquisite art object than an involving movie. So be it. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sensuous and deceptive. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Like other Ozon movies, it feels lifeless and freeze-dried -- in the end, it's more about its own ideas than it is about actual characters. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Whether through manipulation or skilled filmmaking, Swimming Pool mesmerizes long after the movie is over. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Offers an inside-out twist on TV's Murder She Wrote. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Well-acted, nicely shot, slick and certainly sexy, Swimming Pool may be all foreplay and no climax, but what the heck -- there are worse ways to be teased. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Think of it as a box of chocolates, with Sagnier being the chocolate-covered cherry. And you know the problem with chocolates: They're great to eat but they offer no nourishment whatsoever, and afterwards you feel guilty for the indulgence. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: With a little sex, some mystery, a little sex, an appealing title and a little sex, France's Swimming Pool has what it takes to become an art house audience magnet. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Swimming Pool is as lulling as a dead man's float, but you come up for air realizing there's no deep end. Read more