To help you make your choices, here are the films of the week with the highest ratings by the press on AlloCiné!*
THE 3 BEST FILMS ACCORDING TO THE PRESS:
1st: Love and Forests – 3.8/5
“A personal adaptation of Eric Reinhardt’s powerful novel, Love and the Forests intrigues, amazes, upsets and constantly provides great cinematic emotions. A very great film.” By Renan Cros (Cinema Teaser)
“Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud are incredibly accurate in this very successful adaptation of Éric Reinhardt’s novel, about a woman victim of the man she loves.” By Céline Rouden (La Croix)
2nd: Omar the strawberry – 3.4/5
“Director Elias Belkeddar signs an endearing first film on a story of friendship and uprooting. The duo Réda Kateb-Benoît Magimel works wonderfully. Effective.” By Mohamed Berkani (Franceinfo Culture)
“In a dark, hilarious and speedy comedy, Elias Belkeddar follows the run of two thugs in distress. Reda Kateb and Benoît Magimel are jubilant.” By Bertrand de Saint Vincent (Le Figaro)
3rd: The little Mermaid – 2.5/5
“Neither catastrophic nor the new masterpiece of the seventh art, The Little Mermaid is ultimately, despite its failures, a pleasant musical comedy.” By Thibault Liessi (Latest News from Alsace)
“This 2023 version is a bit long, half successful and half failed, like Javier Bardem’s performance, which sometimes borders on the ridiculous. And ultimately remains very timid in its alleged progressiveness.” By Christophe Caron (The Voice of the North)
THE 3 BEST FILMS ACCORDING TO VIEWERS:
1st: Love and Forests – 3.8/5
“A film that shakes, jostles, overturns.” By Isis
“The high quality direction and the fair and impeccable interpretation of Virginie EFIRA and Melvil POUPAUD fully contribute to the high quality of this film.” By Coric Bernard
2nd: Omar the strawberry – 3.1/5
“A somewhat light scenario, but a very nice start, a magnificent Algiers, very local music and above all two freewheeling actors. By claudiebois
“Halfway between Albert Dupontel’s Bernie and Terry Gilliam’s Las Vegas Parano.”
3rd: The Knights of the Zodiac – 1.7/5
“Film without any interest as expected. The special effects are 80% horrible and worthy of a video game from the 2000s.” By teacher83
“Distorted story, sloppy characters, mediocre dialogues… The adaptation of the cult manga turns out to be an artistic disaster and an insult to the fans.” By squirrel
* According to the ratings of the AlloCiné barometer, as of Friday May 26, 2023, for films released in theaters on May 24 with at least 10 reviews for the top press and 50 ratings for the top viewers. These two tops do not include films already released once or several times in France.