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Avg. Critic Score: 79 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 OK for kids 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    An engrossing new drama from France. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    What makes Look at Me such a deeply satisfying experience is its ability to combine insightful character portraits like this with wickedly funny situations that slyly skewer all-too-human weaknesses. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The thing about a movie like this is, the characters may be French, but they're more like people I know than they could ever be in the Hollywood remake. Read full review

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    The latest in a series of stiletto-sharp social comedies by the French filmmakers Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agns Jaoui. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    A movie of biting social observation. And it masterfully avoids Manichaean simplicity. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Lisa Nesselson

    Punchy dialogue, excellent thesping and a real feel for the universal tuning fork of great classical music make this a prime candidate for international arthouse play. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Smart, absorbing movie. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 15+ A woman comes to terms with her father's limits.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this intelligent, charming French film has subtitles and includes mild references to sex (for instance, a twentysomething couple's gentle kissing leads to off-screen sex). The film focuses on intergenerational tensions, as an aspiring singer must learn to move past her anger at her egotistical, famous novelist father, and stand on her own, with her own relationships, ambitions, and self-image. Characters drink (especially wine) and smoke, and women worry about their weight.
  • Families can talk about Lolita's low self-esteem and judgments of other people, as these stem from her experiences with her father (who ignores or criticizes her, but who also shows himself to be vulnerable and afraid of being abandoned, that is, not wholly bad). Families can also discuss the ways that Lolita's nuanced relationship with her supportive music teacher helps both women to understand themselves more fully. How do parents inadvertently hurt their children's feelings? How can children develop autonomy and self-assurance while also respecting their parents?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Not an issue
  • sex false3 Sex: References to sex.
  • language false3 Language: Some profanity.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking.
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