74
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannThe writing, by Rapp and Catherine Dussart, is exquisite, and the performers, including Francois Truffaut's old colleague Jean-Pierre Leaud as a magistrate, are all first-rate.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAn elegant study of devious mind games and emotional perversion, it makes the strangest of psychological dynamics plausible and involving.
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorRapp's creepy, ghoulishly funny and, finally, touching new film.
- 80The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThis deliciously nasty French deconstruction of male pecking orders, directed by Bernard Rapp, should send a pleasant shiver down the spine of anyone who has ever obsessed about wanting to please a devious and manipulative boss.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA neat little almost-thriller, this witty French diversion manages to mess with your head with little apparent effort.
- 75Boston GlobeBoston GlobeA Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown.
- 70New Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerNew Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerThe two lead performances are so good it contains more emotional depth than it probably has a right to.
- 63New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThere are also food scenes that will whet your appetite. But somehow a satisfying climax never makes it out of the oven.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThis psychological thriller takes its time and never delivers the big shocks genre fans raised on its American cousins have come to expect. But it works up a chilly atmosphere of creeping dread, and the tension.
- 50Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonA Matter of Taste's largest handicap is restraint: It's too tasteful. The climactic crisis is a broken leg, and the off-screen denouement is unimaginative.