The Girl on the Train's plot -- a humane amalgamation of youthful desire and civil disquiet -- unspools with crisp palatability and engaging timeliness, sucking one into its considerate narrative with consummate ease. Showing cine-excellence as can be readily achieved only by an innately talented filmmaker, Andre Techine ensures union with recent feats as Wild Grass, Water Lilies and The Secret of Kells -- intelligent, adroit films that validate French cinema's continued preponderance.

It's a love story from the uniquely expansive -- and inquiring -- point of view that makes Téchiné France's most fascinating contemporary filmmaker.

Catherine Deneuve is brilliant!

"There might have been deeper currents of envy and displaced shame to plumb in the case of Girl on the Train, but for once this reliably penetrating filmmaker hasn't found them." - Bill Weber