| There is a heist motif running through the film and an amnesia motif and a noirish femme fatale motif too. |
| Part psychological thriller, part love story, part existential mystery, this is Audiard at his noirish best. |
| The film also looks terrific, and uncharacteristically noirish for a Hitchcock film. |
| The dialogue is frenetic and noirish, the action punctuated by a string of jarring, campy song-and-dance numbers. |
| A palpable sense of irony, derived from Greek tragedy, embeds itself in the noirish landscape. |
| When Himes was known at all, he was thought of as a writer of noirish detective thrillers, which were seen as a comedown from promising literary beginnings. |
