The movie's treatment of her same-sex affairs may be as tasteful as the set design, but the film is an absorbing introduction to a trailblazing artist.

Keira Knightley is magnetic in a Paris-set period drama with a dollop of queer feminist energy.

[Keira Knightley] gets far more to do and is infinitely better at it than usual in the brisk new period piece Colette

What viewers end up with, fortunately, is the journey of a woman toward empowerment and freedom from societal norms that possesses the power to render them breathless and with a strange desire to conquer the world.