Name : Bernard Besserglik / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie is held together.by the fluidity of his style and his characteristic blend of lightness and gravity.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out
Techine offers a character study in lieu of context for the similar 2007 hoax that threw the French press into a tizzy, and like many of his best films, this what-if examination works best as an actors' showcase.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Techine brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
At the age of sixty-six, [Techine] approaches the exploits of his characters with a gusto, and a willingness to be led astray, that borders on the adolescent.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A seductive drama.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Techine has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is Techine's gift - not just detail, but telling detail; and not just slices of life, but slices as rich as a cassata cake.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Don't expect any kind of neo-documentary examination of cause and effect. That's not filmmaker Andre Techine's style, and this is one of his most successful films.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The movie seems likely to be about anti-Semitism, but that's more the occasion than the subject.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A paper-thin plot ornamented with distractions: a nonlinear narrative, unreliable narrators, flatulent dialogue and awkward post-production work.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The film is based on a play, but it is to the director's credit that it never shows the claustrophobic trappings of a proscenium stage.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Techine glosses over the story's most potent issue: France's complicated relationship with its Jewish community.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Like Techine's best films, the movie appears to be a story about nothing - until it suddenly becomes a meditation on the vagaries of the human heart.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : Village Voice
For better or worse, there isn't a human experience that French director Andre Techine can resist lathering into a tone poem.

Name : David Jenkins / Alias : Time Out
The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers

Name : V.A. Musetto / Alias : New York Post
It is Dequenne who holds the film together - she and Techine's youthful touch, which belies his 66 years.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It's a well-acted, but frustratingly inconclusive exercise.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Although the main character's motivations remain largely a matter of conjecture, The Girl on the Train is a compelling piece of cinema.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
The transparent title character from 2012's "The Woman in Black" is resurrected in this sequel, which abandons atmosphere for cheap scares.

Name : Ben Kenigsberg / Alias : New York Times
The director, Tom Harper, seems less interested in allegory than in monotonous, conventional goosing, the kind that involves flickering lights and a creaky rocking chair.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is an improvement on its predecessor. That said, the new installment is, at best, a serviceable creep show, one with far more chills than thrills.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
It's mostly deadly dull, and when it does liven up a tad, the haunted house tale offers only wan shock tactics.

Name : Kyle Anderson / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The Woman may be back for another fright, but Angel of Death doesn't haunt like it should.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
She's back, the Woman in Black, and it does give one pause to wonder if it's for no better reason than to scare up some more box office lucre.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Director Tom Harper and screenwriter Jon Croker offer up plenty of atmosphere, but every good idea this sequel has to offer winds up taking a backseat to the most obvious cat-in-the-closet "BOO!" moments imaginable.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's a dour, drab, dark movie, enlivened by some moderately effective chills in the first half but ultimately undone by its downbeat aimlessness.

Name : Simon Abrams / Alias : Village Voice
Flawed but genuinely creepy ghost story The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is disappointing, but only because it comes close to greatness.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The material feels stale from nearly the first scene featuring the threatening old manse.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Redundancy is about all it offers, despite an entirely new set of characters and a story set 40 years after the early 20th-century original.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
A handsomely made but dramatically inert and not very scary sequel to 2012's surprise-hit ($127 million worldwide) Edwardian chiller.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
The 1940s setting gives the film's first half some unearned gravity, but by the end the jump-scares and rote plot frightens away the good will.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Predictable shock tactics, drippy wartime romance and scenes in which the characters leaf tremulously through Victorian photo albums and spout exposition.