The Playlist

Denis and Binoche have made a film that’s both smart and sexy, imbuing new excitement and wonder into the emotional connections that define us all.

The Playlist by Joe Blessing

Denis and Binoche have made a film that’s both smart and sexy, imbuing new excitement and wonder into the emotional connections that define us all.

RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny

This is the touch of a cinematic master. Claire Denis is the writer and director of this film.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

It’s a deep and moving investigation into one woman’s inner struggle as she goes about looking for true love.

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

Denis and her writing partner, the novelist and playwright Christine Angot, have woven a sublime comedy of sexual indecision. They mine Isabelle's affairs for humor as well as heartache, and do it with such delicacy that you may be hard-pressed to tell which is which.

Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

Rather than a chic bagatelle, this proves an acutely intelligent, finely acted and – despite its cerebral edge - emotionally rich piece.

Variety by Guy Lodge

Perfectly small rather than slight, and radiantly carried by Juliette Binoche — in a light-touch tour de force to be filed alongside her work in Kiarostami’s “Certified Copy” — this turns out to be a subtler departure than it outwardly appears for Denis, most evoking her other Parisienne drifting-hearts study, “Friday Night,” in its bittersweet tone.

Screen International by Jonathan Romney

Rather than a chic bagatelle, this proves an acutely intelligent, finely acted and – despite its cerebral edge - emotionally rich piece.

Village Voice by Danny King

An existential whirlwind even when it seems sitcom-flippant, Sunshine sees Denis continuing on an elevated cinematic plane.

The Atlantic by David Sims

Let the Sunshine In is a unique, spellbinding work, worthy of comparison to Denis’s best films.

Time by Stephanie Zacharek

A multifaceted, bittersweet delight.

TheWrap by April Wolfe

When films are made about straight men in this predicament, they’re often considered explorations of a “midlife crisis,” but Denis’ film poses the questions: What if crises aren’t limited to a certain age, and what if love itself is the crisis?

Slant Magazine by Greg Cwik

Claire Denis finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings.

The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer

The film slowly but surely works its charms, painting a rich, emotionally complex portrait of a woman who, like Denis herself, will not let herself be boxed in.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

This is grownup film-making, more savoury than sweet, seductive, oblique and carried by a wonderfully smart and emotionally generous performance from Juliette Binoche – who delivers the material superbly, material which from almost anyone else would sound dyspeptic or absurd.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

Bright Sunshine In is a pithily precise portrait of the love life of an artist.

The Film Stage by Ed Frankl

Here is a film littered with off-piste humor and featuring a memorable, warm-hearted ending that argues being open to serendipitous new experiences beats comforting certainties in life.

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

As slinky as the reflection of a neon sign trailing across the hood of a black sedan, this is a slight movie, shot on a whim just a few months before its world premiere, and it feels cobbled together in its search for some kind of meaning.

The Playlist by Bradley Warren

All in, the film is an unprecedented misfire for Denis.