Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

This is a good movie, from a masterful novel.

Time by Richard Corliss

Poignant, troubling and altogether splendid new film.

Variety

Never Let Me Go is that rare find, a fragile little four-leaf clover of a movie that's emotionally devastating, yet all too easily trampled by cynics.

Boxoffice Magazine by Pam Grady

The drama boasts a stellar cast, exquisite performances and a tense atmosphere. It is a film that the author's fans and lovers of mature, measured storytelling will embrace.

Variety by Peter Debruge

Never Let Me Go is that rare find, a fragile little four-leaf clover of a movie that's emotionally devastating, yet all too easily trampled by cynics.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A beautifully mopey adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-praised novel.

Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman

Anyone who saw the Oscar-nominated Mulligan in "An Education" knows what she can do. If you didn't, you're in for the kind of quietly revelatory acting that portends a brilliant career.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams

May be too sterile and stylized to elicit real tears, but it's got brains and heart to spare.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Best approached with little to no advance information or expectations, which is the same way the film's characters experience their lives.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

This is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

The surface blandness does not efface, and might even amplify, its disturbing qualities. Never Let Me Go is not a movie about death but, more painfully, about the consciousness of death.

Movieline

Knightley has the least screen time of the three, and her Ruth never registers as much more than a self-serving menace.

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber

Expertly acted, impeccably photographed, intelligently written, even intermittently touching, the film is also too parched and ponderous to connect with a large audience.

Entertainment Weekly

It's a very tony fantasy of class oppression and fascist medical exploitation (themes that may speak louder in England), but it's a lyrically inert movie.

USA Today by Scott Bowles

Just as its characters need a reason to live, Go needs a reason for audiences to watch. Neither find much satisfaction.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Alas, what's missing is the spark of life, the jolt of the unexpected - something beyond tears - to puncture the falseness of a film world, which, by its insistence on its own beauty, obscures the tragedy that the three characters, by their nature, cannot express.

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

The stylistic conceit of keeping us entirely with the clones (so that we are as ill-informed as they are and never get to meet their powerful oppressors) only reveals what an empty-headed abstraction this tale was from both page and frame one