Swimming Pool

Ozon’s film is like Eric Rohmer meets Brian DePalma – questions of identity and perception come to the fore, but slowly.

"...Directed by: François Ozon. Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle and Jean-Marie..."

July 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sense of an Ending

A man's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a letter

"...Directed by: Ritesh Batra. Starring: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery and Emily Mortimer...."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Under the Sand

"...Pierre Vernier, Alexandra Stewart, Jacques Nolot, Bruno Cremer and Charlotte Rampling. Under the Sand is a haunting French movie..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

45 Years

A long-married couple begins to question their union

"...Directed by: Andrew Haigh. Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James and David Sibley...."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Heading South

North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.

"...Directed by: Laurent Cantet. Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Ménothy Cesar, Louise Portal, Lys Ambroise..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Clive Owen stars as the sad, taciturn anchor of this modern film noir by Croupier's Mike Hodges.

"...Directed by: Mike Hodges. Starring: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Charlotte Rampling, Malcolm McDowell, Noel Clarke, Jamie Foreman, Sylvia Syms..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Max, Mon Amour

"...Directed by: Nagisa Oshima. Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Christopher Hovik and Ailsa Berk. The..."

Sept. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Assassin's Creed

Popular video game series hits the screen

"...Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Charlotte Rampling...."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Kimberley Jones' Top 10 Films of 2015

"...excavation of the bedrock of a marriage – and Charlotte Rampling's face is a beautiful monument unto itself...."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

5x2

Ozon's film begins at the end and leads backward over the slow death of a couple's marital bliss, but even while we’re flipping through the snapshots of two people’s disenchantment with each other, it never feels tawdry or excessive or, for that matter, very interesting.

"...Pool, and while there’s no Ludivine Sagnier – or Charlotte Rampling for that matter – to draw the eye..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angel Heart (1987)

If one were to graph Mickey Rourke's career, one would find the peak way back in the mid-Eighties, back when Rourke was an A-list actor who actually starred in films rather than randomly popped up, as he does these days, as a weathered cameo player swallowing his bit parts whole. Somewhere on the summit of that peak sits Angel Heart.

"...Parker; with Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Brownie McGhee, Stocker Fontelieu. If one were to..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven gets historical for his new take on nunsploitation

"...Directed by: Paul Verhoeven. Starring: Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia, Charlotte Rampling and Elena Plonka...."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Little Stranger

A very British ghost story takes unexpected turns

"...Abrahamson. Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Red Sparrow

Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.

"...Francis Lawrence. Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, Mary-Louise Parker, Joely Richardson, Ciarán Hinds,..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Statement

The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades (Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.

"...Norman Jewison. Starring: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Ciarán Hinds and John Neville. The..."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Melancholia

Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier brings his vision of human annihilation to the screen in this visually stunning and thematically rich film.

"...Directed by: Lars von Trier. Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Charlotte Rampling,..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Review: ‘Restless’

A junior British agent enters WWII's spy games

"...versions of the same woman: the sixtysomething Sally Gilmartin (Charlotte Rampling), living out retirement quietly in the English countryside..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Dune

The science-fiction epic gets the screen treatment its scale demands

"...Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista and Sharon Duncan-Brewster...."

Oct. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Snags Widows

High profile and local features fill out the schedule

"...visit report here); and Willie Nelson teaming up with Charlotte Rampling for Waiting for the Miracle to Come...."

Sept. 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Films About Writers

Storytellers become the story

"...Writer’s block sends mystery novelist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) to her publisher’s French villa to work on..."

June 10, 2016 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Never Let Me Go

The children in this story are born into a system that values them for their disposable body parts, not their discrete personalities.

"...Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell, Charlotte Rampling and Sally Hawkins. Early reactions to this filmed..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Life During Wartime

Todd Solondz revisits the family from his film Happiness, but the characters are all played by different actors, and the result is no less disconcerting.

"...Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling, Ally Sheedy, Renée Taylor, Gaby Hoffman, Dylan Riley..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Duchess

Keira Knightley stars as the titular Duchess, a legendary wit and arbiter of taste, but the film is a curiously inert: a whole lot of pomp and incircumstance.

"...Directed by: Saul Dibb. Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell and Simon McBurney. Knightley..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to escort a woman with a dangerous virus out of Russia.

"...Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Mélanie Thierry, Radek Bruna and Joel..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deception

In this so-called erotic thriller, busy New York City power brokers partake in a decadent sex club that eventually proves fatal.

"...McGregor, Michelle Williams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Natasha Henstridge and Charlotte Rampling. Like so many sausages, Hollywood continues to grind..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Basic Instinct 2

This wholly unwarranted sequel is so outrageously preposterous (and chockablock with bad dialogue) that the end result achieves a basement grandeur of near-epic proportions.

"...Michael Caton-Jones. Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling and Hugh Dancy. "Ich rieche Blut" is the..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Critics Poll 2001

"...Acting Kudos -- Female: Charlotte Rampling (Under the Sand), Thora Birch (Ghost World), Sissy..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Georgy Girl

"...Narissano. Starring: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave and Charlotte Rampling. You know the song, now discover the movie...."

July 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling...."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wings of the Dove

"...Softley. Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott, Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth Mcgovern and Michael Gambon. The Wings of..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov