Anatomy of a Fall

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Triet’s breathtakingly intelligent and subtly perverse masterpiece takes the long way through the cold and the snow to address, in nuanced but never ambiguous terms, the ineffable and irreducible mystery at the heart of deep relationships — between two partners, between parents and their children, between words and the world.”

  Elena Lazic, The Playlist · 100

• “This whole film has a wizardry to it which you’ll be thinking about for days.”

  Tim Robey, The Telegraph · 100

• “Part true crime legal thriller and part family drama, Triet's Palme d'Or winner is a thrilling story about perception, truth, and ambition.”

  Therese Lacson, Collider · 100

• “Anatomy of a Fall may not be a film with many concrete answers, ultimately, but the truths it uncovers are irrefutable.”

  Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press · 100

• “Though some may come for the murder mystery, it’s Triet’s way of using that genre to get at deeper notions of love turning to hate, and tiny marital fissures that turn into chasms, that really makes this something close to an anti-romantic masterpiece.”

  David Fear, Rolling Stone · 100