TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Jordan and McCabe's real triumph here, however, is the tenderness with which they imbues "Kitten," and the astonishing grace with which the extraordinary Murphy pulls it off.

Premiere by Glenn Kenny

Playful, poetic, shocking, saddening, and ultimately gratifyingly and honestly big-hearted.

Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy

[Murphy] makes a thrillingly flesh-and-blood creature of Kitten, with her yearning, her droll, self-deprecating wit, her breathless romanticism and her puckish vibrancy. It's easily the most fun bit of screen acting this year, and as rich and nuanced as the lead in any drama.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The movie is like a Dickens novel in which the hero moves through the underskirts of society, encountering one colorful character after another.

Film Threat by Eric Campos

If you like your boys pretty and your stories incredible, this movie is for you.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

Cillian Murphy gives a tour de force performance.

Dallas Observer by Bill Gallo

For Jordan, this is a return to top form.

The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann

It is the central performance that holds us. Cillian Murphy glows.

Newsweek by David Ansen

Jordan is always best on his native Irish turf, and he's in grand mischievous form in this picaresque fable.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Thanks to Jordan's bravura storytelling, Breakfast on Pluto is one of very few movies this year truly worth remembering.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

In substance and style, the movie is more than a few tears short of Jordan's "The Crying Game." But Murphy is an actor to watch. Even in heels.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

In a year overcrowded with wonderful performances by lead actors, Mr. Murphy's immensely appealing turn ranks among the strongest.

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Though he (Jordan) directs with admirable skill, his usual touches don't drive the film--which occasionally threatens to lose its shape.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Despite numerous surface pleasures, including a beguiling pop soundtrack and presence of rising star Cillian Murphy in the lead role, dramatic shortcomings spell a mixed overall reception.

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

Tedious portrait of a troubled Rolling Stone.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Jordan lets slip virtually every rudiment of drama. He never deigns to develop his characters, he coats the movie in a wet blanket of whimsy, and he lets pop songs do his work for him more lavishly than Cameron Crowe did in "Elizabethtown."

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

May be Jordan's wildest mis-shot yet, so dense with dying fizzle and limp ideas that I began to wonder if Jordan has an evil twin, or if there are in fact several Neil Jordans, among them at least one literate stylist and one humor-handicapped village idiot.