Variety by Jay Weissberg

In every sense, I Am Love is a stunning achievement.

Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

When Guadagnino focuses solely on the primal, the effect is spellbinding. Only the words get in the way.

Observer by Rex Reed

I Am Love fuses the past with the changing future in a marvelous traditional narrative without a shred of the sloppy trends of contemporary filmmaking.

Variety

In every sense, I Am Love is a stunning achievement.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

An amazing film. It is deep, rich, human. It is not about rich and poor, but about old and new. It is about the ancient war between tradition and feeling.

Slate by Dana Stevens

If nothing else, it's an eye-boggling two hours at the movies and a must for Swinton completists fascinated by her recent turn toward operatic roles in odd, unmarketable films like this one and last year's Julia. She's becoming the Maria Callas of international cinema.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

The grand architecture of Milan and the icy rhythms of composer John Adams set the tone for this elegant Italian drama about the suffocating power of family, wealth, and tradition.

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

The movie that we do have is cogent, lavish, and formidable enough, with a Recchi-like power to frighten and seduce.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Often soaringly beautiful melodrama.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

I Am Love is a bold and thrilling masterpiece -- the introduction of a major talent to the world's stage.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

I Am Love makes no apologies for its style. None needed: The film, a two-hour swoon, is a cry for romantic freedom, perched on the edge of self-parody, as all good melodramas are.

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

What keeps the story fresh isn't so much Guadagnino's swooning sense-reveries, which sometimes flow with dreamlike wonder and sometimes just drag; instead, most of the power comes from Swinton, who always makes the most of characters imbued by passion, but straitjacketed by expectations.

Movieline by Michelle Orange

Bold, weird, and a little stalkerish in its intensity, Luca Guadagnino's third feature is an open cinematic buffet, as ready to satisfy as it is to displease, depending on your taste and appetite.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Director Luca Guadagnino is having so much fun setting up the Kubrickian chill (even Barry Lyndon's Marisa Berenson is on hand) that when Emma and the much younger Antonio finally come together in warming Sanremo, their tryst almost sneaks up on you.

Empire by Damon Wise

A stately, rich and moving Italian melodrama in the spirit of Visconti.

The Hollywood Reporter by Natasha Senjanovic

An ambitious film, and Guadagnino deserves praise for the risks he takes here.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The film is almost deliriously stylish, which helps mask the silliness. But the bellowing music, by John Adams, is infuriatingly intrusive -- which undoes the visual good.