50
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Petroni's directorial debut is too bittersweet and atmospheric for its own good, wrapping a potentially strong story in too many layers of misty emotion.
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50
This dank, gloomy essay into the supernatural tries hard to create an intriguing mood in which fate guides the lives of its wounded protagonists, but few will be interested in the outcome.
20
I can find nothing nice to note about this excruciatingly slow, overly tasteful piece of whimsy.
60
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
There's a somber tone to Petroni's work here--enhanced by Roger Lanser's shadowy cinematography and handicapped a bit by a schmaltzy Hollywood-type score--and there's also plenty of episodic life stuff.
50
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Quickly causes viewers to lose patience, then interest.
50
Despite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there.
40
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
I was seduced part of the time, thanks largely to Bonham Carter's sensuality, but the whole is unsatisfying, and it's tempting to see the imposed recutting as a major source of the problem.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Stays emotionally mired because of a static screenplay that fails to express its issues dramatically.
40
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
So busy building its symbolic frame that it forgets to develop its characters, or even to make them likable.
80
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
Like the best of poems, it doesn't lend itself to easy understanding. But, like the best of poems, it's extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect.