Annette

"However sloppy its execution, this is a go-for-broke attempt at breaking and then reassembling the form."

"What at first seems different and brilliant ultimately curdles into a new kind of awful."

"A pretentious, arty, occasionally breathtaking, ultimately misbegotten midsummer gift."

"Driver's admirable devotion to Annette's stylish ecstasies and ironies can only carry its smattering of ideas so far."

"A wildly melodramatic rock-opera prone to insane flights of desire, despair, and dorkiness, Annette is gloriously artificial..."

"Hovering on the brink of collapse, it’s a delicate dance between genius and fiasco..."

"This ambitious collaboration between Carax and Sparks drags us under with its downbeat themes and repetitive lyrics."

"It’s a swoon of anxiety and rapture."

"The different sensibilities involved rarely mesh together and the songs - mostly thin and unmemorable, more often talky than melodic, with obsessively repetitive lyrics - seldom ignite much feeling."

"Annette is sure to be divisive, but it's a curio that demands to be seen. It's not as if you get to watch surreal, avant-garde rock operas very often."

"I don't know what Annette is, except that it's Annette, and that it's unique."