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By Natalia Keogan (119) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Mar 2022

Though it pales in comparison to the bold creativity of High Life, Fire is adroitly handled in Denis’ hands…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 04 Mar 2022

The silences that overwhelm the movie’s confrontational rages and the suppression of backstory details, underplaying motives and emphasizing…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2022

The studied ambiguity of what’s going on in Fire doesn’t keep it from often achieving the suspense of an accomplished erotic thriller…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 15 Feb 2022

As is often the case with Denis’ films, Fire grows more illuminating as it gets hotter; what starts like a constrained and unusually jagged…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Feb 2022

The sense of love dissolving and lives thrown into chaos as a dormant past violently breaks through the surface is unexpectedly moving, all…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 15 Feb 2022

Some viewers may find it hard to credit the emotional extremes on display here, which seem more to do with the codes of French psychological…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2022

Denis’ latest sees her applying her usual rigorous form and psychological curiosity to material that tends to inspire more generic directorial…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Feb 2022

It isn’t difficult to imagine Denis–one of the most cerebral, confounding filmmakers we have–constructing Fire, with its oddly trivial…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Feb 2022

Marie never seems particularly interested in either man except for how they are interested in her and is revealed to be so self-centered in…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 15 Feb 2022

The film has an impetuous, let’s-try-it-on quality that makes it a modest pleasure…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 15 Feb 2022

Claire Denis’s new film is a seductively indirect love triangle, a drama of the mind as much as the heart…

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