TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Lawrence delves deep into the moral dilemma at the heart of Carver's deceptively simple tale. By deliberately making the young woman in the river aboriginal, the film also opens up yet another dimension in the reaction to the men's inaction: Would they have acted any differently had the murder victim been white?

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Jindabyne wears its class politics lightly, weaving them into a ghost story about the intimate connection between how we treat our living and our dead that will hover around your shoulders long after you leave the theater.

The Hollywood Reporter

The same organic characterizations that marked Lawrence's acclaimed 2001 film "Lantana" will attract fans of strong adult drama.

The Hollywood Reporter by Megan Lehmann

The same organic characterizations that marked Lawrence's acclaimed 2001 film "Lantana" will attract fans of strong adult drama.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Jindabyne's strength and power come from a number of factors: its origin, its current landscape and the unusual way its writer-director, Ray Lawrence, has chosen to work.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Writer-director Ray Lawrence, well regarded for his two previous films, "Bliss" and "Lantana," expands Carver's work into an indictment of colonialism and an examination of the chasm that supposedly exists between men and women over matters of the heart.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

The result is a mature and challenging motion picture, and something that will stick with viewers after the screen has gone dark.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Jindabyne -- named for the lakeside town in which the troubles spill -- can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Dublin-born Byrne and native New Yorker Linney...are both exceptional at depicting characters about to burst from inner turmoil, and Linney, in particular, is heartbreaking.

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

In the end, it's all a bit too self-consciously mysterious and Lawrence leans a bit too much on the atmosphere to do the work for him as he builds to a frustrating ending. But his vision of a place haunted by a restlessness it can't define proves unsettlingly infectious.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

While not everything in Jindabyne works, especially in its final, redemptive third, the film and its faces stay with you.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

I wish one-tenth of the films I saw were made with this much craft and integrity, this much intuitive understanding of where to put the camera, how much of the story to explain in words (not much) and how much to trust his outstanding cast to carry the film with their voices, faces and bodies.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Hand it to Lawrence and Christian. Jindabyne is a soberly, if sluggishly, crafted movie in which the bitterness never stops.

Variety by Robert Koehler

Never obtains the full impact of its potentially powerful inner core.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Scene by scene, Jindabyne has dramatic force, but it's an awfully long slog. Carver's smartest tactic was never outstaying his welcome.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Jindabyne started with a bad idea and the finished film doesn't do well by it.