76
Metascore
39 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis is a movie that considers graphic violence with a refined taste for the sensuous: Guts spill, blood spurts, corpses stink, but there is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring.
- 90TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissCan a movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one.
- 90VarietyLisa NesselsonVarietyLisa NesselsonTold with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture sustains a special melding of romance and pragmatism that should engage discerning audiences.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversAn emotional powerhouse.
- 88PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyAn epic treatment of epic themes that doesn't soft-soap its audience, but at the same time provides a terrifically satisfying entertainment.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterJeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliStarts slowly, but builds to a satisfying conclusion.
- 60Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterBoldly aspirational. It's Jeunet's stab at "Paths of Glory," dipped in a sepia bath and halfway wrenched into a women's picture.
- 60The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasFor all of Audrey Tautou's considerable charm in the title role, Jeunet's need for a well-ordered universe proved as suffocating and exhausting as being trapped on an amusement-park ride.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorShuttles between schoolboy humor, calculated savagery and, at the end, a rank sentimentalism in which love all too easily conquers all.