Innocence (2004)
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:11
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 21, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: A subterranean rumbling resonates in the heart of a forest. Hidden by foliage, a metal grate reveals underground passageways, which lead to the cellars of five houses scattered throughout a great... [More]
Reviews for Innocence
| Tomatometer | Critic | Review | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
allegorises the innocent joys, confused anxieties and newly awakening impulses of pre-pubescence, where the only certainty is that the innocence of the title, like the film itself, must eventually come to an end... Full Review |
||
|
|
Withholding basic expository material, and unpredictably restless in its focus, Innocence both rivets and challenges emotional engagement. Full Review |
||
|
3.5/4 |
Hadzihalilovic has arrived as a director to reckon with. Full Review |
||
|
A |
... haunting and hypnotic fairy tale... with a distinctly European sensibility... lovely lingering scenes that cast a spell over the almost abstract story. Full Review |
||
|
A- |
...often seems like Picnic at Hanging Rock as directed by David Lynch Full Review |
||
 2/4 |
Innocence is beautifully photographed by Benoit Debie, directed with assurance and sure to make you wonder what you've just seen. Full Review |
||
|
3/4 |
Innocence is full of charm and strangeness -- and a sense that childhood is a place of incredible terrors and fleeting joys, of rapt innocence and fatal experience. Full Review |
||
|
|
I can't recommend this film to my readers, because I don’t happen to trust its motives. Full Review |
||
|
|
Innocence is not merely the year's best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being 'tween. Full Review |
||
|
.5/4 |
It doesn't take long before this bizarre structure becomes interminable... Full Review |
||
|
4/4 |
Hadzihalilovic succeeds brilliantly at crafting a meaningful enigma that somehow grasps the essence of adolescence, but only grows more mysterious with each revelation. Full Review |
||
|
4/4 |
One of the oddest, most perplexing -- and delightful -- films to come along this year. Full Review |
||
|
3/4 |
A visually lush and eerily enigmatic parable of female sexuality, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's ominous fairy tale raises questions you'll be wondering about for days. Full Review |
||
|
2/5 |
The line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier, at least in recent memory, than in the French film Innocence. Full Review |
||
|
2/5 |
Men with a penchant for young girls: please stay away. Full Review |
||
|
3.5/4 |
What you feel at the end is nostalgia; not just for your childhood curiosity, but for a time when movies boldly allowed suggestion and shadow to control their momentum. Full Review |
||
|
1.5/4 |
Bursting with pretentious pap about women's journey from a state of undefiled innocence to sullied slutdom. Full Review |
CommentRT On Current TV
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.
What were your favorites? Least favorites? The funniest and scariest? Moviefone wants to know!
Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds