Criminal Lovers(Les Amants criminels)

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham

Straddles a number of genres -- horror film, lovers on the lam, fairy tale -- and gives them all a cool, knowing spin.

Film.com by Ernest Hardy

Has its own sense of logic and integrity that demand a kind of begrudged respect.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.

New York Post by Jonathan Foreman

Francois Ozon, perhaps France's hottest director of the moment, is often better creating stylish visuals than dramatically credible situations, but Criminal Lovers is never boring.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Imagine "Hansel and Gretel" by way of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

This remains the one and only fusion of ''Deliverance'' and ''Hansel and Gretel'' that I ever hope to see.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

It's a passionate vision thick with eroticism, but the musky atmosphere gets a little thick and murky.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

Both the leads are scarily good, and Ozon imbues his troubling tale with jarring blasts of light and the sun-dappled beauty of the natural world.

San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris

In Criminal Lovers, the "Bonnie and Clyde" model of killing-as-erotica gets a shrewd, funny, decidedly French workout.