James Berardinelli yearns for more plot and dialogue.

Bifrost published Pam Mason's anti-Woolf, Swinton-skeptic riffs.

"Deliciously kinky ambiance" dazzles David N. Butterworth.

Cosmopolitan falls for the Garbo of Scotland.

The movie makes the cut of the Daily Illini's Diversions page.

Just the basics from Deseret News.

He's Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Stephen Cox raves on behalf of the Edinburgh University Film Society.

Entertainment Weekly tries its best to avoid "academic chic."

Max Hoffman is awestruck, transfixed, totally ecstatic.

Stephen Hunter likes the film's steady delirium.

More splendor, now from Knoxville.

Those aren't car keys, Mr. Leeper; they're balloons for a party.

"No suction!" proclaims LowComDom.

Grand trickery is a burden for Maclean's.

The Nation's Stuart Klawans (who has referred to Sally Potter as his amour fou) rereads Woolf.

A brief piece for the Nebbadoon Syndicate by Joan Ellis.

The New Republic is a purist!

It's all frightfully romantic for Newsweek.

Terrence Rafferty (the New Yorker) is disappointed by the emptiness he finds in things.

People Weekly has a short attention span.

The articulate Ida Kohl measures her profound disappointment for Perkolator.

A certain Philm Phan is much more complimentary.

Playboy knows a good spectacle when they see one.

PopcornQ offers an observant run-through.

Style over subtlety agrees with Renaissance Magazine.

Orlando is the loveliest night of the year for Rolling Stone.

Smarty-pants cinema has an audience in Salt Lake City.

Is it a Sci-Fi Movie?

John Simon sleeps without dreaming.

Joe Brown of the Washington Post appreciates an economic yet baroque production.

Also from the Washington Post: a great review by Rita Kempley.

Weekly Mail & Guardian's Stanley Peskin is enthralled by the "lusts of the flesh and lure of the mind."

Cynthia Fuchs and Linda Lopez McCalister celebrate their introductions to a lovely film.