Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Fierce, funny and vividly moving.

Time by Richard Schickel

The best movie of this very young millennium.

Village Voice by Amy Taubin

It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

It's an audacious, affecting, and unexpectedly hilarious debut, and most definitely the most original film I've seen all year.

Mr. Showbiz by Kevin Maynard

Though frequently brutal and off-putting, Beautiful People is a must-see.

Portland Oregonian by Diana Abu-Jaber

If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed.

L.A. Weekly by F. X. Feeney

Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film

Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf

Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

Often grim, but never nihilistic: Even at its darkest, Dizdar gives the movie an optimistic bounce. The movie is often shockingly funny, too.

Film.com

More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Equal parts soap drama and ham-fisted morality tale.