The Magic Flute 2006

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Even though there were moments in The Magic Flute when I wondered if Branagh hadn't truly gone off his rocker, I found its audacity exhilarating. Read more

Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail: The results are often fascinating (I love the duet of the Armed Men, sung by a chorus of faces animated out of a wall of sandbags), sometimes ludicrous and never boring. Read more

John Terauds, Toronto Star: In the end, love triumphs. In this movie, the music triumphs, proving again that a true masterpiece can survive all kinds of meddling. Read more

Martin Hoyle, Time Out: Apart from a fascination with the hate-spitting mouth and throat of Lyubov Petrova's vocally pyrotechnic Queen of the Night, the visual gimmicks are individually tolerable. But they don't add up to anything particular. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: Opera buffs shouldn't throw away their DVDs of Ingmar Bergman's 1975 TV movie. Read more