New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is the purest, boldest re-imagining of silent cinema yet.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

It is a full-bodied silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s, if such details as the kinky sadomasochism of this film's evil stepmother could have been slipped past the censors.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is extremely pleasurable to watch, and shows every sign of having been extremely pleasurable to make.

Village Voice

The new film from Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger is a silent, black-and-white film so witty, riveting, and drop-dead gorgeous that moviegoers may forget to notice that they can't hear the dialogue.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

The silents, as this film suggests, achieved aesthetic marvels before sound came along to set things back for a while.

Village Voice by Chuck Wilson

The new film from Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger is a silent, black-and-white film so witty, riveting, and drop-dead gorgeous that moviegoers may forget to notice that they can't hear the dialogue.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

Best of all: the musical score by Alfonso de Vilallonga. It's terrific — witty, symphonically lush and shrewdly informed by flamenco strains throughout.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Berger also shows a dark wit and a faith in old-fashioned melodrama that puts Blancanieves more in the camp of Pedro Almodóvar than Guy Maddin’s golden-age pastiches. (And aside from being silent and a period piece, the movie has almost nothing in common with "The Artist.")

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

If nothing else, Blancanieves offers an excellent case for revisiting the early days of cinema -- and for recognizing how much has been lost in its absence. While "The Artist" recalled the silent film industry, Blancanieves solely pays tribute to the art.

The Playlist by Gabe Toro

You don’t need to know the resume of Maribel Verdú to know that the “Y Tu Mama Tambien” star is this film’s meal ticket. With an equal division of screentime with her co-star, Verdú’s ferocious sexuality projects that she was meant to become the fairest of them all by sheer force of will.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Expressively (Berger knows his grammar), a white communion dress is dipped in black dye as her custodial grandmother passes away and an evil castle beckons.

NPR by Ella Taylor

Brimming over with sadism and the occasional touch of kink, Blancanieves piles on the pathology that's the birthright of any fairy tale worth its salt. Yet it's still a tale of lost innocence, and Berger keeps faith with a prototype revered by the Disneys and the Grimms alike: the resilient, enterprising girl who overcomes wave after wave of adversity.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

In an attempt to be both modern and traditional, this gorgeously made film ends up betwixt and between.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

It communicates the delights of pastiche rather than the thrill of original creation, a secondhand movie love that is seductive but not entirely satisfying.

Slant Magazine

Pablo Berger digs for emotional intensity in his gothic retelling of Snow White and only uncovers layers of gloss.