It doesn’t always work, but the writing is sharp, the performers top-notch and the set designs achingly beautiful.

Simply put, I didn’t care for a single person or situation on-screen, and Jacobs’s curiously unconfident and drab direction, which is in desperate need of tighter editing, only hastened my growing annoyance.

Barry Hertz

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Too listless to fizz and too peculiar to win us over, French Exit, directed by Azazel Jacobs, is hampered by clockwork quirkiness and disaffected dialogue.

Jeannette Catsoulis

The New York Times