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  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    It's a thin line between 20th-century Nazism and 21st-century corporate culture in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's rewardingly chilly psychological thriller. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    Amalric gives another in a recent string of riveting performances, and Klotz gets a lot of play out of the ironic distance between musical expression and corporate rigor. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    A rich, vexing experience. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Lisa Nesselson

    Both pertinent and discomfiting, this sober, well-cast drama remains quietly riveting, despite its 140-minute running time. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice |

    Here, knowledge and understanding raise more questions than they answer, and the film ends not in closure, but in openness. It is precisely those qualities that give Heartbeat Detector its epic sense of humanity. Take them away and you'd be left with a leaner but markedly less compelling workaday workplace thriller: "Michael Clayton" with Nazis instead of lawyers. Read full review

  • 63
    TV Guide | Ken Fox

    A chilling corporate thriller with an intriguing mystery on the surface and a deeply troubling idea at its dark core. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    The movie is, arguably, too long and overladen with ideas. Klotz and Perceval are particularly keen on nailing the use and abuse of language in formatting human behavior. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    The rather lost-looking Mr. Amalric, most recently seen on screens giving his left eyeball a furious workout in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," maintains a suitably funereal mien throughout. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Reader | J.R. Jones

    Director Nicolas Klotz paces his mystery plot so luxuriously that it feels like a ride in a company limo, though his ultimate thesis, that corporate culture is inherently fascist, hardly seems worth the trip. The saving grace is Amalric, who looks so sharp in a tailored suit that he can't sense himself rotting from within. Read full review

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