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THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH (LA FEMME DU VÈME)Movie Reviews
English and French language thriller about an American writer in Paris whose difficult life takes a turn when he becomes involved with an intriguing woman. Cast:Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Kulig, Delphine Chuillot, Samir GuesmiDirector:Pawel PawlikowskiRelease Date:June 15, 2012DVD Release:September 18, 2012From:ATO PicturesRating:RLength:1 hr 23 min
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème), Good (Not Great) Reviews Key Cities
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème) played in key cities to good not great reviews. • Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, "...really, really weird... Ethan Hawke's performance - sympathetic, in pain, sensitive, and on edge - leaves open all possibilities." • And Rick Groen wrote in the Toronto Globe & Mail, "...leaves us with too little to ponder and nothing to feel..." More Reviews Below...
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème) Positive Reviews (25 Reviews, reviews below)
Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Accepting Pawlikowski's mood of poetic seriousness may be a chore for some. Others will find this creepy little sonata a dream or nightmare worth succumbing to..."(See all of Richard Corliss's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,078 words, 06/15/12
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD(cg) "...creates a nice sense of paranoia and multicultural bewilderment that's the welcome tonal opposite of Woody Allen's romanticized 'Midnight in Paris' fripperies."(See all of Lisa Schwarzbaum's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 112 words, 06/15/12
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING(cg) "When do we first sense reality slip away? Do we? Can the film be accepted on its own terms? Can the point of view be trusted?"(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 694 words, 06/22/12
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (10 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "It doesn't have the kind of payoff that details who did what and why... [but] if you're up for some narrative drift, you can just go with the ambiguous flow..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 759 words, 06/15/12
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: WEAK(cg) "Pawlikowski can't decide what to do with his protagonist.... Tom wanders between blandly dark corners and promisingly odd situations that never really amount to much."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 184 words, 06/15/12
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "Too many questions and not enough answers... The film looks swell, however, thanks to Ryszard Lenczewski's beautiful compositions..."(See all of Gary Goldstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 214 words, 06/22/12
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "There's nothing wrong with director Pawel Pawlikowski's creamy bore that changing just about everything in it wouldn't fix, or at least improve."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 117 words, 06/22/12
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING(cg) "When do we first sense reality slip away? Do we? Can the film be accepted on its own terms? Can the point of view be trusted?"(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 694 words, 06/22/12
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a thoroughly odd and brooding psycho-puzzle.... You're not sure what this is till it's over, but certainly Hawke's performance is his nerviest and most sincere in a decade."(See all of Michael Atkinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 211 words, 06/13/12
Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...leaves us with too little to ponder and nothing to feel... an interesting chameleon until it runs out of disguises, and all that was transitory just looks transparent."(See all of Rick Groen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 598 words, 06/15/12
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Ethan Hawke's sympathetic performance gives the film an emotional continuity that seems to make sense of things even when things don't make sense at all."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 179 words, 06/14/12
KEY CITIES (6 Reviews)
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: WEAK(cg) "...an enigmatic slice of gothic suspense.... It's a curio, ripe with dreamy atmospherics and intriguing mysteries, but little else."(See all of Ann Hornaday's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 324 words, 06/15/12
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD(cg) "The which-way-is-up psychological mystery teases with our perceptions of reality, making us detectives as much as spectators."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 128 words, 06/29/12
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD(cg) "...what both fascinates - and sometimes infuriates - about the tale is the dreamlike obscurity that clouds it... it is guaranteed to haunt you for awhile."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 521 words, 06/15/12
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...really, really weird... Ethan Hawke's performance - sympathetic, in pain, sensitive, and on edge - leaves open all possibilities."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 247 words, 06/15/12
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD(cg) "...builds up to a satisfyingly shocking revelation in its third act, but then seems to peter out rather than ending, telling us things we could have been shown."(See all of Moira Macdonald's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 274 words, 06/15/12
Tom Long, Detroit News: WEAK(cg) "...leads down a too-worn path to nowhere.... leaves so many holes unfilled that instead of ending up intriguing, it's just plain frustrating."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 264 words, 07/06/12
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (6 Reviews)
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a thoroughly odd and brooding psycho-puzzle.... You're not sure what this is till it's over, but certainly Hawke's performance is his nerviest and most sincere in a decade."(See all of Michael Atkinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 211 words, 06/13/12
Scott Tobias, AV Club: MODERATE(cg) "...feels like a literary bauble, chipped by imperfections.... doesn't seem invested in its own psychodrama.... It's hard to see much of a point."(See all of Scott Tobias's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 385 words, 06/14/12
Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...skillful enough to keep you wondering, from scene to scene, exactly what that 'what' is going to be... I was with the movie every step of the way, right until the final credits..."(See all of Stephanie Zacharek's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 882 words, 06/15/12
Chris Cabin, Slant: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a work of genre mechanics, in this case a supernaturally flecked thriller... throbs with substantial personal weight and bristles with a violent, haunting interior life."(See all of Chris Cabin's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 484 words, 06/12/12
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Ethan Hawke's sympathetic performance gives the film an emotional continuity that seems to make sense of things even when things don't make sense at all."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 179 words, 06/14/12
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR(cg) "Oh, deliver us, please, from tiresome male fantasies.... What a waste of the awesomeness of Kristin Scott Thomas, reduced to a bit of wank material."(See all of MaryAnn Johanson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 417 words, 02/18/12
HIGHBROW PRESS (3 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "It doesn't have the kind of payoff that details who did what and why... [but] if you're up for some narrative drift, you can just go with the ambiguous flow..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 759 words, 06/15/12
Ella Taylor, NPR: FAIR "...has visual flair to burn, but you can't build a movie out of atmosphere alone... the film fairly oozes enigma; if only it could drum up something to be enigmatic about."(See all of Ella Taylor's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 679 words, 06/14/12
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "Too many questions and not enough answers... The film looks swell, however, thanks to Ryszard Lenczewski's beautiful compositions..."(See all of Gary Goldstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 214 words, 06/22/12
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: WEAK "...disappointing.... An O. Henry-ish twist merely exposes the story as an empty tease, a campfire tale spun out to a tedious and stilted 83 minutes."(See all of Justin Chang's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 536 words, 09/15/11
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "A haunted-novelist art film sporting a lusciousness that's as unfashionable as it is pleasurable... takes a path viewers may not expect but is hypnotic enough to succeed..."(See all of John DeFore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 422 words, 09/13/11
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "Too many questions and not enough answers... The film looks swell, however, thanks to Ryszard Lenczewski's beautiful compositions..."(See all of Gary Goldstein's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 214 words, 06/22/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "It doesn't have the kind of payoff that details who did what and why... [but] if you're up for some narrative drift, you can just go with the ambiguous flow..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 759 words, 06/15/12
19.3 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème)'s reviews are separated by an average 19.3 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème) (25 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème)'s reviews cover 41.7% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 10,271 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 411 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème) Coverage, Volume & Length (25 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 6 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème)'s reviews on average broke 6 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
The Woman in the Fifth (La femme du Vème) (25 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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