Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"Nasty Baby" rights itself intriguingly when Silva pushes his characters into unknown territory and lifestyle is imposed upon by life.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
An awkward scene between the artist and a local gallery director highlights Silva's fluency in the rituals of social superiority.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A small, at first docile, then provocative story of alternative lifestyles in Brooklyn.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Nasty Baby takes aim at a fat target: gay modern-family dramedies, those well-meaning, self-congratulatory films that haven't actually felt modern in a decade.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Wiig and Adebimpe give appealing, naturalistic performances . but it's not enough to keep the otherwise rambling narrative together.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
A loosely scripted, raucously nonconformist laffer that looks like it's going one way, only to arrive somewhere else entirely .

Name : Alan Zilberman / Alias : Washington Post
Ultimately, Silva's uneven command of tone undoes whatever goodwill his actors have managed to generate. They - and we - deserve much better than this.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
I disliked it at first-the camera is as jittery as the characters-and kept disliking it until I realized that I'd been drawn in, if not exactly captivated.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
What had looked like a meandering, anecdotal story turns out to be a carefully constructed narrative machine, one that dispenses a brilliantly nasty series of surprises.

Name : Mike D'Angelo / Alias : AV Club
A complete mess.

Name : Tricia Olszewski / Alias : TheWrap
(The end) slams the brakes on any goodwill you had for the characters.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Techine has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The film is based on a play, but it is to the director's credit that it never shows the claustrophobic trappings of a proscenium stage.

Name : Bernard Besserglik / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie is held together.by the fluidity of his style and his characteristic blend of lightness and gravity.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Techine brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A paper-thin plot ornamented with distractions: a nonlinear narrative, unreliable narrators, flatulent dialogue and awkward post-production work.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
At the age of sixty-six, [Techine] approaches the exploits of his characters with a gusto, and a willingness to be led astray, that borders on the adolescent.

Name : V.A. Musetto / Alias : New York Post
It is Dequenne who holds the film together - she and Techine's youthful touch, which belies his 66 years.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It's a well-acted, but frustratingly inconclusive exercise.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out
Techine offers a character study in lieu of context for the similar 2007 hoax that threw the French press into a tizzy, and like many of his best films, this what-if examination works best as an actors' showcase.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is Techine's gift - not just detail, but telling detail; and not just slices of life, but slices as rich as a cassata cake.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The movie seems likely to be about anti-Semitism, but that's more the occasion than the subject.

Name : David Jenkins / Alias : Time Out
The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Like Techine's best films, the movie appears to be a story about nothing - until it suddenly becomes a meditation on the vagaries of the human heart.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : Village Voice
For better or worse, there isn't a human experience that French director Andre Techine can resist lathering into a tone poem.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Techine glosses over the story's most potent issue: France's complicated relationship with its Jewish community.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Don't expect any kind of neo-documentary examination of cause and effect. That's not filmmaker Andre Techine's style, and this is one of his most successful films.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A seductive drama.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Although the main character's motivations remain largely a matter of conjecture, The Girl on the Train is a compelling piece of cinema.