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Karina Longworth, L.A. Weekly: If Audiard's mastery of plastic aesthetics makes this all go down a little too easy, that's maybe the point: perception is deceiving. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: [A] sometimes engrossing, sometimes exasperating romance. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: "Rust and Bone" is a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Mr. Audiard has style galore, but he suffers from the same elephantiasis of the ego as almost all of the current American directors. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Why are certain films less than the sum of their appealing parts? Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: "Rust and Bone" seems to wander unexpectedly into its heart; it feels organic in its casual unfolding, like life itself. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: It says something that Audiard's "killer whale movie" stages its most emotional moment to a Katy Perry song and still deserves to be taken seriously. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: There is something about two broken people trying to create something whole between them that is endlessly appealing to movie audiences. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The leads save it, particularly Cotillard, who once again subverts her own glamour with ferocious lack of ego. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The masterful writer-director Jacques Audiard draws vivid performances from Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts for this gripping French romance about the body and the soul. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The entire picture feels like a poetic-grunge generality, with a penchant for jacked-up tension that feels applied to the situation, not pulled from within the people on screen. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The entire shebang is like a Frenchified homage to the tough-tender universe of everything from The Champ to the Bogart-Bacall duets. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: This is a sensuously assembled, almost tactile film that earns its redemption and sears itself in memory. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: For all its willful melodrama, Rust and Bone takes its characters -- and us -- someplace touching and hard fought. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: "Rust" has some lovely scenes - Alain carrying Stephanie out to the sea - but it seems to wander off in search of something it already has, and in wandering, it loses its way. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Cotillard is] forced to flail and mood-swing from scene to scene. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: An emotionally gripping if slightly meandering drama marked by two powerful lead performances. Read more
Laremy Legel, Film.com: A solid little drama from director Jacques Audiard that effectively captures the fragmented existence of those crippled by pain. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: [It] benefits from unvarnished, forthright performances from Marion Cotillard and Bullhead hunk Matthias Schoenaerts, as well as from the utterly convincing representation of the former's paraplegic state. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Romantic but pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, "Rust and Bone" is a powerhouse. Read more
Michael Nordine, L.A. Weekly: A disappointing use of Cotillard's estimable talent buoyed by striking visuals and inspired use of a Katy Perry song. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The movie wanders off course in the final act, as if none of its three screenwriters could quite figure out how to end it. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: You couldn't ask for a more random relationship, but "Rust and Bone" slowly, almost magically, gives it meaning, symbolism, even a kind of symmetry. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The better the director, however, the more that melodrama is recast as romantic destiny, and Jacques Audiard... brings such drive to Rust and Bone that you barely hear the whirrings of contrivance. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Rethinking what we thought we knew - about love, about sex, about disability - is what "Rust and Bone" is about. Be careful, the film warns us -- we may know less about those things than we think. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, NPR: Audiard isn't afraid to be a little sentimental, and that's what distinguishes Rust and Bone from so many other contemporary dramas or romances. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Its underwritten characters and hoary approach plunk it into mediocrity. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: If you hired Albert Camus to write "Rocky," it might come out something like "Rust and Bone," a quintessentially French effort to combine pugilism and sentimentality. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Audiard, who made the uncompromising prison saga A Prophet, is like a gritty, realist Douglas Sirk - throwing his characters into whirlwind scenarios that are filled with big emotions and fateful turns of events. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: When Rust and Bone tells a story of a woman's recovery from a devastating injury, it hits all the right notes, traveling a path that is poignant without being mawkish and triumphant without being saccharine. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: As an orca trainer who loses her legs, Cotillard is astonishing, as is Schoenaerts as a boxer who helps restore her sexual identity. Audiard's hypnotic film means to shake you, and does. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: You should just go see it, because it has a visual command and powerful narrative undertow all its own. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: "Rust and Bone" is a tough movie about tough people for a tough audience. So prepare to get roughed up a little. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Rust and Bone is a movie about letting go of shame and making way for the advent of pleasure. Let that be your guide to watching it as well. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: These are people who never would have connected under ordinary circumstances; they end up needing each other desperately. Only in the movies. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: An effective and moving drama about the strength of the human spirit and the will to survive. Read more
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Rust and Bone" has heart and soul. Read more
Jon Frosch, The Atlantic: The movie takes a contrived-sounding romance and turns it into a visceral, idiosyncratic exploration of battered bodies in search of souls. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic: Demonstrates that one can take a pat inspirational story and infuse it with the hardship required to make that inspiration feel earned. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: By turns brutal and tender, Rust and Bone is a bullet train of heightened melodrama that refuses to derail. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: An unusual and unsettling love story, Rust and Bone shows once again that Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard is as close to perfect as any female has ever been onscreen. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: The muscularity of Audiard's approach becomes more macho and less appealing as the film goes on, and the script wanders down distracting byroads that make it feel episodic and inattentive. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: It's Cotillard who surprises: Too often cast as eye candy, she demonstrates a facility here for tiny gestures and facial expressions that suggest emotional arcs in miniature. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The story grows inert, hindered by Schoenaerts' expressionless performance. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: A tender yet heavily de-romanticized love story between a boxer with broken hands and an orca trainer with missing legs, "Rust and Bone" serves as an impressive if somewhat overblown exercise in contrasts. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Rust and Bone is as ludicrous as its plot synopsis suggests. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: A movie that defies categorization, slips convenient genre boundaries, and leaves viewers feeling haunted and inspired in equal measure. Read more