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The complexity of Egoyan's construction enlightens, rather than confuses. How the pieces fit together is a sleight of cinema.

Although displaying much of the barbed wit of his first film, this is a more measured and moving work.

Saturated as it is with unreliability and delusion, this is a film that relies heavily on atmosphere to keep viewers involved.

Truly cutting-edge cinema, daring and imaginative, quite unlike anything else you'll see this year.

Lorne Balfe’s magnificent, melodic score shapes our sense of time passing, just as shots of the open desert, of the emptiness around the palace, add to our sense that all that history is present and immediate.

All of the pieces fit together perfectly so that questions arise in the mind of the viewer exactly when they should, and little shifts of mood have unexpected consequences.

Villeneuve's award-winning work with video ensures that arty camera angles are not forgotten.

By positioning itself carefully between the imperatives of retaliatory justice and their fearful consequences, the movie is ultimately less a political thriller than a mesmerizing study of psychological breakdown.

This is a crisp and well made thriller. It confidently moves the story with its universal themes of secrecy and the abuse of power to France, and grips all the way through.