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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe film is a requiem for the living as well as for the dead.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckSuperbly conveys its themes of despair and lost opportunities.
- 88New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoAn achingly beautiful look at the most tragic victims of the longtime war in Chechnya: children.
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirA prodigious, almost spiritual experience, a luminous, challenging art movie out of the Tarkovsky school that happens to be about a real war and its effects on real children.
- 80VarietyVarietyWalloping gut punch The 3 Rooms of Melancholia offers a harrowing docu look at war and militarism's wounds, as seen through the eyes of Russian and Chechen children.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanConsistently moving but never quite coalesces into a strongly coherent whole.
- 60Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderHonkasalo's bleak, meditative 2004 documentary, about children who have been orphaned or dispossessed as a result of the Russian-Chechen conflict, eschews any attempts to make sense out of this long-running war.
- 50Film ThreatFilm ThreatShows that war is horrible, but fails to fully understand the people who experience the horror beyond their sad exteriors.
- 50Village VoiceJoshua LandVillage VoiceJoshua LandFrustratingly little here grapples with the day-to-day realities of life in Chechnya and the surrounding areas.
- 50The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayViewers will either be transported by Honkasalo's somber artistry or begging for someone to stick a gasoline-filled syringe into their veins...As art, 3 Rooms is magnificent, but as a viewing experience, it's almost impossible.