holds an approval rating of 100% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "Led by Noée Abita's outstanding central performance, Slalom offers a moving account of oppression and abuse in the guise of mentorship." According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 77 out of 100 based on 13 critics, the film received "generally favorable reviews". Jessica Kiang of Variety called it "Well-made, perceptively performed and deeply enraging, it's a difficult but necessary watch". Tomris Laffly of RogerEbert.com wrote, "Delivering an unforgettable breakthrough performance, Abita is phenomenal in pitching Lyz on the slippery slope between an adult wannabe and a little kid, boldly wearing even the smallest nuances of her character's rapidly shifting emotional world on her resolute face". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, "The grey area between passionately committed teaching and abuse is a familiar topic. Yet the film ingeniously merges it with the ambiguous experience of slalom ski-ing: exhilarating and euphoric, but also dangerous and even an emotional death-wish, surrendering to the downhill rush". Bilge Ebiri, reviewing the film for Vulture, wrote, "The film is too rich and too human for any kind of categorization. But for all its beauty, it's also quite an unsettling watch - a delicate, authentic look at the complicated ways in which abuse works". Awards and nominations References External links 2020 films 2020 directorial debut films 2020s French films 2020s French-language films 2020 drama films French drama films French-language Belgian films Belgian drama films Skiing films Films about scandalous teacher–student relationships Films about sexual abuse Films set in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Films shot in Savoie Films postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic