70
Less a thriller than a comedy, and a formulaic one at that, predicated on an amusing but bizarrely simplistic clash of personalities and cultures.
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75
It’s worth seeing twice just for the privilege of watching Rampling and Sagnier match each other stroke for stroke.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
While not stunningly original, is fresh and compelling enough to hold the viewer's attention through its entire running length.
90
Dallas Observer by Jean Oppenheimer
A delicious little thriller about an uptight, ill-humored English mystery writer who becomes enmeshed in murder, Swimming Pool is at once comical, contrary, resourceful and ambiguous.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Tricky thriller relies on its smoothly unrippled surface, leisurely pacing and slightly awkward performances to create a false sense of security that sets up viewers for a shock when it takes an abrupt turn into Patricia Highsmith territory.
63
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
Along with co-writer Emmanuele Bernhein, Ozon...has crafted a contemplative blend of fantasy and reality that illuminates the mysteries of the creative process.
75
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Immersed here in both the fair, dreamy air and chilly, deeper waters, Rampling and Sagnier make Swimming Pool a fine sunlit noir, oozing sensuality and menace.
60
Even though it has some amusing moments, Swimming Pool crawls entirely too slowly toward -- well, toward nothing much.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
But the ending, at once ambiguous and obvious, is a letdown -- a frustratingly literal-minded, or literary-minded, conceit.