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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: It's safe to say you've never seen a film like this before. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The result is something so old it's new, so corny it's funny. And while Tears of the Black Tiger is nothing more than entertaining, at least it's that. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's no buried postmodern masterpiece, but it certainly is a jaw-dropper: a delirium-inducing crash course in international trash. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: An enjoyably energetic genre romp. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Has lots of pop energy and an admirable poker-face when it comes to its Douglas Sirk-ian storyline. And even though it's essentially a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from a zillion other movies, you really haven't seen anything like it. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Mostly this is the kind of relentlessly postmodern "fun" best served in small portions, and preferably on dessert plates. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A parody of and winking homage to the history of Thai melodrama, Wisit Sasanatieng's uproarious filmmaking debut exuberantly combines pop and kitsch with a wholesome belief in the thrills of bad art. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: [Director] Sasanatieng engages the viewer's emotions fully in the squaring away of the eternal triangle, involving young people who emerge as three-dimensional individuals even though they are archetypal. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The movie is fun to watch, with an attractive cast. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Goodness knows there are enough winking genre references in Tears of the Black Tiger to fill an encyclopedia of film, but does anyone care, short of self-congratulating movie critics? Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Director Wisit Sasanatieng uses every trick imaginable to create surreal postmodern nostalgia. Has he wound up with pure camp, or a cult classic? As he clearly understands, the best B-movies are both. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: What makes Tears a must-see are its day-glo colors, stylized gunfights, music that sounds as if Ennio Morricone had written it for one of Leone's spaghetti Westerns, and hyperbolic dialogue. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The uncut Tears of the Black Tiger is more powerful than the cut version, not least for the way it shows that [director Wisit] Sasanatieng, even amid all the craziness, takes care to tie up even the loopiest plot details. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: It's watchable, but eventually wears you down with its over-the-top cleverness. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: What the story lacks in snap, it makes up for in sincerity. [The film's] melodrama is so poker-faced and its gore so explicit (if phony-looking) that it's hard to tell whether you're dealing with the Thai Todd Haynes or the Thai Sam Peckinpah. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Wisit's amazing film goes so far beyond kitsch that it enters Powell and Pressburger territory. Read more
Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Nothing is too crazed, corny or freakishly florid for Tears of the Black Tiger. Together with cinematographer Nattawut Kittikhun, Sasanatieng dyed his images through digital postproduction, pushing colors to impossible hues of eccentric radiance. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You've never seen and never will see anything quite like Tears of the Black Tiger. Read more