Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Rapturously beautiful, startlingly audacious and often very funny, the film employs many of the techniques that were used so pleasingly in "Amélie."

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

It's a magical film which manages to transport and rivet us in the same highly-imaginitive, breezily playful way "Amelie" did.

San Francisco Chronicle by Ruthe Stein

Hauntingly tells a story older than the Odyssey and as timely as today's body count from Iraq.

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

Unfolds amid the mechanized carnage of World War I. Yet everything in it is personal. That's why it's a masterpiece.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

This 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.

Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy

A unique and masterful film, filled with surprises and felicities and moments of transporting visual power.

Variety by Lisa Nesselson

Told with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture sustains a special melding of romance and pragmatism that should engage discerning audiences.

Time by Richard Corliss

Can a movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one.

Salon by Charles Taylor

The holiday season's best movie so far.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

In its insistence on the centrality of the war to the collective consciousness of mankind, it's of a piece with "The English Patient," rather than "Saving Private Ryan."

Premiere by Glenn Kenny

An epic treatment of epic themes that doesn't soft-soap its audience, but at the same time provides a terrifically satisfying entertainment.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

An emotional powerhouse.

The Hollywood Reporter

Jeunet provides numerous pleasures, particularly visual, along the way.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Starts slowly, but builds to a satisfying conclusion.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

For 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.

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Boldly aspirational. It's Jeunet's stab at "Paths of Glory," dipped in a sepia bath and halfway wrenched into a women's picture.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Shuttles between schoolboy humor, calculated savagery and, at the end, a rank sentimentalism in which love all too easily conquers all.