The Closet(Le Placard)

L.A. Weekly by

Auteuil is as charming as ever, with a surprising aptitude for physical humor that keeps the tone cheerfully light and the laughs plentiful.

Newsweek by David Ansen

More sweet than savage, this amiable farce creates laughs with old-pro efficiency.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

Tumbles happily into every pitfall that lines its well-trodden path.

Los Angeles Times by John Anderson

Veber, also responsible for "The Dinner Game," apparently has a finger on the pulse of French audiences and Gallic-minded Americans, but there's just not a lot of freshness in this Closet.

Chicago Tribune by John Petrakis

By the end we are left with a mildly amusing comedy and the lingering memory of a sterling cast that deserved better material.

Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector

Funny? This one is. It's also sweet and thoughtful.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

It's amusing more often than it isn't, largely because the cast is so nonchalant and, well, French about everything.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Auteuil and Depardieu spar hilariously, and writer-director Francis Veber, following "The Dinner Game," offers another delicious treat.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Passes the time pleasantly and has a few good laughs.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Veber's giddy social comedy The Closet finds more delicious, chortling fun in the spectacle of obsequious hypocrisy than any movie I've seen in ages.