Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

A heady yet disciplined work, a dazzling fable of love, destiny and redemption.

Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan

Every once in a while a picture comes along that captures not just love, but romance in all its fear, yearning, fantasy, eroticism and unexpected epiphanies. German filmmaker Tom Tykwer's The Princess and the Warrior is one such film.

New Times (L.A.) by Bill Gallo

The cornerstone of this fascinating film is a peculiar but absolutely solid love story. In terms of intellectual and emotional stimulation, who could ask for more?

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Deeply whimsical beneath its poker face, The Princess and the Warrior has the structure of an elaborate mind-teasing puzzle.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

It's dreary and self-indulgent but has its crystalline moments.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

Lacks the gimmicky hook that made "Run Lola Run" an arthouse hit, but it doesn't lack for ideas, nor for images that will sweep you up in their boldness and have the resonance of dreams.

Newsweek by David Ansen

Goes on too long, and much of it is hooey, but it’s hard not to have a good time.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

(Tykwer's) unpredictability has become predictable, and the only thing genuinely uncanny here is the unsettling — and unintentional — sense of déjà vu.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Tykwer ends the film on a bizarre note that caught me off guard, a too-literal bit of salvation that is more bothersome than revelatory.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Throughout, Tykwer reaches for mysteries he has no idea how to evoke, relying instead on his actors' empty stares.