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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100EmpireEmpireSplashing around in the same mad puddle as Lynch but a good deal funnier, this tale of a man with many faces is an exhilarating, audacious, lunatic rocket-ride. Hop on board.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawWeird and wonderful, rich and strange – barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling.
- 100Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonUnclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking.
- 90The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisIt's a gift for moviegoers to have this much freedom, and exhilarating. In Holy Motors you never know where Mr. Carax will take you and you never know what, exactly, you're to do once you're there.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinHoly Motors is typically confounding but on every level that matters a work of unfettered - and liberating - imagination.
- Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking and completely bonkers – French auteur Leos Carax's so-called comeback film, Holy Motors, is a deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking that appraises life and death and everything in between, reflected in a funhouse mirror.
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramA surreal head-scratcher that'd make Luis Buñuel smile, it may not be perfectly formed, but there's no denying its fierce originality.
- 70VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonAudaciously giving itself license to do whatever it wants, Leos Carax's narratively unhinged, beautifully shot and frequently hilarious Holy Motors coheres -- arguably, anyway -- into a vivid jaunt through the auteur's cinematic obsessions.
- 63Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezLéos Carax's maddening, self-satisfied, though never smug, game of spot-the-reference seems intended only for a particular type of cinephile.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfHoly Motors is aggressively "wild," a puzzle that tweaks the mind but doesn't nourish.