Grant Watson Fiction Machine May 11, 2024 8/10

Full Time (À Plein Temps) is nothing like a thriller or a horror movie, and yet it must rank among the most tense and uncomfortable films I have ever seen. Every second feels like walking on eggshells.

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David Parkinson Radio Times Feb 9, 2024 4/5

The result is a propulsive depiction of working life that will no doubt prove gnawingly familiar to many viewers.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Jan 14, 2024

It’s a film that pretty much anyone tasked with caring for children can click in to an empathize with.

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Fletcher Powell KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Aug 7, 2023

Sometimes the only way to keep going is to keep going.

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Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome Jul 24, 2023

Full Time is an angry indictment of the current state of affairs and an ode to the sacrifices parents make for their children.

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Jul 20, 2023 5/5

A realistic drama about a single mother coping with a possible job change amidst a transit strike.

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Hector A. Gonzalez InSession Film Jul 19, 2023 A-

While it may have some slight problems as everything is going downhill for Julie, the film always remains captivating and relatable.

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Filipe Freitas Always Good Movies Jul 19, 2023 4/5

Designed to provoke anxiety, Full Time is more gripping than most of the recent thrillers I’ve seen lately.

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Saskia Baron The Arts Desk May 30, 2023 3/5

Calamy’s performance, excellent camerawork, and the visceral portrait of France's economic unrest make Full Time well worth seeing.

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Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) May 26, 2023 3/5

... An unsurprising but tightly paced bit of social realism.

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Linda Marric The Jewish Chronicle May 24, 2023 4/5

Full Time goes further in its quest for realism than anything ever released by the Dardenne brothers or Britain’s purveyor of miserabilist social realism, Ken Loach.

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Cath Clarke Guardian May 24, 2023 4/5

It’s such an authentic and relatable film – so meticulously observed, in fact, that to be perfectly honest, I assumed it had been made by a woman.

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Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal May 23, 2023 4/5

That’s the stress-inducing nightmare of Full Time, a nail-biting domestic thriller that dramatises the mundane horrors of commuting as a means of exposing the precarity of the lower-middle class.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Mar 20, 2023 B

It's a Ken Loach-like grim character study of a resilient female worker.

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Josh Kupecki Austin Chronicle Mar 16, 2023 4/5

Full Time never loses the focus of what it is, which is one of the best thrillers of the year.

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Mar 16, 2023 B

Laure Calamy gives a one-woman show performance as she is front and center for nearly every frame of the film. The actor and her character hold your attention throughout

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Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Mar 11, 2023 B+

Aided by Victor Seguin’s fluid, constantly moving camera and Irène Drésel’s anxiety inducing synth score, “Full Time” is a nerve-shredding experience until the joyful, climactic sigh of relief the filmmaker finally allows both Julie and his audience.

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MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Mar 3, 2023 5/5

This relentless, heart-in-your-throat, ticking-clock thriller about precarious single-motherhood could not be more timely or more intimate. As real, and as recognizably stressful, as the genre gets.

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Wade Major FilmWeek (LAist) Mar 3, 2023

It is so anxiety-inducing, but so well made and [Laure Calamy's] performance is so good.

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Andy Klein FilmWeek (LAist) Mar 3, 2023

An almost the perfect example of a film I admire but did not enjoy at all... [Laure Calamy] carries this whole thing on her shoulders.

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