Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

Like the best of poems, it doesn't lend itself to easy understanding. But, like the best of poems, it's extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect.

Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf

There's a somber tone to Petroni's work here--enhanced by Roger Lanser's shadowy cinematography and handicapped a bit by a schmaltzy Hollywood-type score--and there's also plenty of episodic life stuff.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Quickly causes viewers to lose patience, then interest.

Boston Globe by Janice Page

Despite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

Stays emotionally mired because of a static screenplay that fails to express its issues dramatically.

Variety by David Stratton

This dank, gloomy essay into the supernatural tries hard to create an intriguing mood in which fate guides the lives of its wounded protagonists, but few will be interested in the outcome.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Petroni's directorial debut is too bittersweet and atmospheric for its own good, wrapping a potentially strong story in too many layers of misty emotion.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

I was seduced part of the time, thanks largely to Bonham Carter's sensuality, but the whole is unsatisfying, and it's tempting to see the imposed recutting as a major source of the problem.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

So busy building its symbolic frame that it forgets to develop its characters, or even to make them likable.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

I can find nothing nice to note about this excruciatingly slow, overly tasteful piece of whimsy.