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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxHadzihalilovic succeeds brilliantly at crafting a meaningful enigma that somehow grasps the essence of adolescence, but only grows more mysterious with each revelation.
- 100New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoOne of the oddest, most perplexing -- and delightful -- films to come along this year. And last year, too.
- 90Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonInnocence is not merely the year's best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being 'tween.
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThis genuine curio maintains its mystery to the end.
- 80The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier, at least in recent memory, than in the French film Innocence.
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThis is the weirdest film I've seen all year, or at least the weirdest good film. It's also among the most powerful.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA visually lush and eerily enigmatic parable of female sexuality, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's ominous fairy tale raises questions you'll be wondering about for days.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterSustains a pervasive feeling of anxiety and suspense, despite an absence of dramatic conflict or resolution.
- 70The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe Oxford English Dictionary says that an allegory is "an extended or continued metaphor." And to think that this definition was coined when a French film called Innocence was still very far in the future! But how aptly this film proves the point.
- 50The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe more overtly allegorical Innocence becomes, the duller it gets.