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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekLeaving is a bit too dry and controlled, as well as too relentlessly bleak, to be a satisfying melodrama.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe plot isn't a new one (remember Lady Chatterley?), but Corsini gives it a few twists and turns that keep matters fresh and suspenseful.
- 60EmpireEmpireA vital, if slight, study of selfishness and fractured relationships, Leaving is illuminated by the odd, off-balancing twist.
- 60VarietyJordan MintzerVarietyJordan MintzerTightly wound and crafted, with robust performances by Kristin Scott Thomas and recurrent Spanish Don Juan Sergi Lopez, the picture offers a rough, no-frills take on a story as old as France itself.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterScott Thomas is an accomplished actress who can do passion as well as she can do light comedy. But she never quite convinces as a woman prepared to endure every humiliation to pursue her dream of a new life.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisHere, a contemporary French white woman who yearns for liberté, égalité and fraternité is as much a prisoner of her circumstances as women were once upon a time and still are in some cultures, though truly it's all the clichés in this film that make her a captive.
- 40Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonIn any language, the actress (Kristin Scott Thomas) does what she can to best serve her scripts, even when they're hopelessly beneath her.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichLeaving is a tawdry potboiler slathered riotously in portent, complete with a lamebrained detour into vengeance that only Claude Chabrol would be able to pull off.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe class issues make them pariahs, the love scenes belong on Cinemax After Dark, and the emotions writer-director Catherine Corsini believes are so adult are clichéd. Still, Scott Thomas is beguiling as usual, the one expected thing that's welcome here