Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Told in a tricky flashback mode that's vivid even with a few too many temporal kinks, Don't Move is the sort of thing that Claude Chabrol was once praised for making with more pretension and a lot less less juice.

Variety by Deborah Young

In his second outing as a director, top thesp Sergio Castellitto (also playing the surgeon) takes the viewer on an emotion-filled ride and brings a violently masculine perspective to the story. However, it is Penelope Cruz who gives the film's knockout performance.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

A compelling if not altogether convincing tale of mad love and divine redemption, adapted from the prize-winning novel by Castellitto's wife, Margaret Mazzantini.

Empire by Patrick Peters

Castellitto deserves great credit for toning down the melodrama in wife Margaret Mazzantini's novel and producing a very human story about chance, choice and consequence.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

It is a beautifully made film - decorously composed, meticulously acted, cleanly photographed. But all of these qualities make it seem complacent and hypocritical when it wants to be honest and brave, and sentimental rather than emotionally daring.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The script is morose and unfocused - not to mention hard to believe and insulting to women.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The story wants to be a sort of "Last Tango in Paris" redux, but it falls into mere melodrama after a brilliant beginning.

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

There's nothing cute, cloying, or playful about the lovers in Sergio Castellitto's opaque romantic drama Don't Move, but in their way, they're as incomprehensible as the stars of any gimmicky comic love film.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Cruz's willingness to allow her appearance to be so degraded for cinema's sake doesn't really help.