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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Only in flashes does Wong Kar-Wai let you forget about the relentless, meticulous beauty long enough to lose yourself inside it. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Though it's beautifully shot (and characteristically drenched in red-orange light), the characters gently bump each other away, like slow-rolling billiard balls. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: Alternately precious and vapid, the movie attempts to wrest metaphors from a jar of house keys, and eternal verities from pastry. Slice the pie how you will, it's still half-baked. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Wong Kar Wai's strange pastry-filled reverie My Blueberry Nights is not for those who like movies in which things happen; rather, it's for those in a mood to float, sometimes deliciously. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: My Blueberry Nights is Wong Kar Wai's first English-language movie. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also his worst movie. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: My Blueberry Nights should have played like a memory, but its hard-living, luckless losers are too beautiful to be believed. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: For all its implied weightiness and melancholy, My Blueberry Nights is a confection that leaves you feeling empty. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai has an undeservedly high reputation as a master stylist. He's more like a master window dresser. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: My Blueberry Nights hints that buried in Wong's spicy odd noodlings may be an even better conventional filmmaker. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Wai fills the void with pointless slow-mo shots while pushing his real talent to commit over-acting hara-kiri with syrupy drawls and nonsense perspectives Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: It may not be what you expect. But with Wong Kar-wai, it seldom is. Read more
Steven Boone, Newark Star-Ledger: Jones displays some acting chops, but the character she creates with Wong has all the personality of a museum tour guide. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Setting out a grandly romantic dish, Wong encourages us to indulge. And then he leaves us hungry for something more. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The biggest problem is Wong's decision to cast Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a New Yorker who hits the road after a love affair goes bad. Jones, in her first movie, can't act. (There, I said it!) Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Fortunately, Mr. Wong has made the perilous journey into a new language without sacrificing his artistic soul and very personal visual style. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Since it began shooting in June 2006, it's been on the shelf ever since, and you'll instantly know why. It's like watching ice melt. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's not the pie that is meant to make this watchable, it is Wai's greatest gift, observing people, little slices of life in New York, Memphis or Nevada. Unfortunately in this case, those slices don't add up to a meal, or even dessert. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Hong Kong director's efforts to transplant things to a distinctly American tableau fail. Prettily, but miserably. Read more
Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a store-bought bakery-window display cake, infused with flavor essences and color-enhancers. (Is there a cinematic MSG that intensifies the sweetness of eye candy?) Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: The longer this slice of fanciful blueberry-pie Americana sits with me, the better I like it. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Few directors regularly exploit so well film's capacity for capturing the present and the past in the same instant. Wong is plugged into a special zone that feels that joy of experience and the pain of recollection simultaneously. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: I spent the whole 90 minutes in a state of bemused, vaguely pleasurable anticipation, always hoping for the next gorgeous image to come along and sweep me away. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Fans of Chinese director Wong Kar Wai's dreamy, romantic films will find My Blueberry Nights a luscious treat, although newcomers to his world of sensuous longing will no doubt wonder what all the fuss is about. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The casting problem starts with the movie's lead, Norah Jones. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [A] flaky disaster. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: [Portman], not Jones, is the savory dish of movie magic in a mostly bland Blueberry Nights. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Mostly, My Blueberry Nights is irritating and plodding, saved only slightly by Law's lively performance. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: ... while the actors' dialogue delivery is perfectly natural, the aphoristic philosophical nuggets Wong favors sound banal and clunky in this context, leaving the film thematically in the shallow end of the pool. Read more
Michelle Orange, Village Voice: The disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America -- he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese -- but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A star-driven pseudo-indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes. Read more