Norwegian Wood(ノルウェイの森)

Village Voice by

Despite Hung's obvious gifts as a filmmaker, he has ditched this raw immediacy in favor of a drifty, overstuffed, ultimately dull melodrama.

Time Out by David Fear

As a chronicle of grief and passion, however, the film is perilously close to being an exercise in tactile but touchy-feely passive-aggression.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Fans of the book may resist the efforts of director Tran Anh Hung ("The Scent of Green Papaya"), simply because it would be impossible to capture the essence of Murakami's prose. But this exquisitely filmed, often haunting tragedy is worth taking on its own terms.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Admittedly lovely and heartfelt, Norwegian Wood is also hollow.

Variety by Justin Chang

Lovely but listless.

The A.V. Club by Sam Adams

Tran's visual precision is betrayed by his jumbled script, which fails to impose a cinematic structure on the source material.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The film has the loose narrative structure of a quasi-poetic personal journal that is more a series of reflections than a cohesive story.