Don't Move Critic Reviews

Nobody into lush melodramas dripping in sex should miss this pulsating Italian import.Read the full review

Told in a tricky flashback mode that's vivid even with a few too many temporal kinks, Don't Move is the sort of thing that Claude Chabrol was once praised for making with more pretension and a lot less less juice.Read the full review

Movies as strong and provocative as this one are a special pleasure.Read the full review

has a rich, lyrical sweep and floats between past and present, reality and imagination, with ease. It is a richly satisfying experience.Read the full review

In his second outing as a director, top thesp Sergio Castellitto (also playing the surgeon) takes the viewer on an emotion-filled ride and brings a violently masculine perspective to the story. However, it is Penelope Cruz who gives the film's knockout performance.Read the full review

The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.Read the full review

A paranoid male fantasy about cheating, with surface similarities to Hollywood movies like ''Fatal Attraction" and ''Unfaithful." This one's Italian, though, and its attitude toward adultery is more European.Read the full review

It is a beautifully made film - decorously composed, meticulously acted, cleanly photographed. But all of these qualities make it seem complacent and hypocritical when it wants to be honest and brave, and sentimental rather than emotionally daring.Read the full review

There's nothing cute, cloying, or playful about the lovers in Sergio Castellitto's opaque romantic drama Don't Move, but in their way, they're as incomprehensible as the stars of any gimmicky comic love film.Read the full review