8 Women Critic Reviews

So original, so funny, so alive with drama, intrigue, mystery and colors that you want to see it again and again.Read the full review

Really, really good -- Yes, it's over the top, giddy and parodistic (God bless it). But it also takes a thoughtful, if surreptitious, look at what eight women might act like when men aren't around.Read the full review

One of the most uplifting and delightful films to have come along this year.Read the full review

Whatever you call this one-of-a-kind bonbon spiked with wit and malice, it's classic oo-la-la.Read the full review

Movies like 8 Women are essentially made for movie-lovers. You have to have seen overdecorated studio musicals, and you have to know who Darrieux and Deneuve and Beart and Huppert and Ardant are, to get the full flavor. It also helps if you have seen Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap."Read the full review

Even if some of the references are inscrutable, a lot of 8 Women is a riot. Here and there Ozon finds the key to a level of farce that would have amused Bunuel himself.Read the full review

The result is weightless entertainment that's both camp and true, a warped adoration of star-quality actresses as amazing creatures who can project the lives of fictional characters as well as the essence of their own fabulous selves.Read the full review

A gorgeous, if disjointed, spectacle, made endurable – if not entirely comprehensible – by its eye-popping cast.Read the full review

Indefensible, cynical, even grotesque; it is also pure -- that is to say innocent and uncorrupted -- fun.Read the full review