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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Much of what Maddin asserts as truth is balderdash. He was not, for example, born in the locker room of the local hockey team's arena. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: My Winnipeg is overloaded and digressive -- it comes with the territory -- but it's also grounded in a place, Maddin's Manitoban hometown, and it's painfully engrossing. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: In the narration Maddin claims that Winnipeg has ten times as many sleepwalkers as any other city in the world, and though he's surely making this up, it conveys his own sense of entrapment amid the town's dreaminess. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: This autobiographical meditation is seductively funny, as well as deliciously strange, and hauntingly beautiful, as well as stream-of-consciousness cockeyed. Read more
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times: The world would be a better place if every city had its Maddin. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: In the bizarre and singularly delightful My Winnipeg, [director Guy] Maddin offers a docu-history of his hometown, entangled with memories of his childhood. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: This is a secret history, and it's a wonder. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: This haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal -- is not only something no one but the Canadian director could have made, it's also a film no one else would have even wanted to make. Which is the heart of its appeal. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: An entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche. Read more
James Adams, Globe and Mail: Holding its hallucinatory blend of archival footage, animation and skewed recreations of scenes from Maddin's childhood together is the director's inspired, entertaining narration. Read more
L.A. Weekly: Restaging his youth but making his own detours, Maddin transforms Winnipeg into a city of mystery. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: A movie that is as happily warped and enthusiastically disturbed as the rest of [director Guy] Maddin's eccentric cinema. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: You're unlikely to find an easier entry into Maddin's wild world than this black-and-white 'docu-fantasia', a dryly funny, cheerfully false autobiography. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Guy Maddin's films are always delightful, but his latest, My Winnipeg, has an added treat for film buffs: It features Ann Savage! Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: For the uninitiated, I heartily recommend this free-associative, autobiographical gem. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This tongue-in-cheek "docu-fantasia" about the hold his snowbound Manitoba hometown has over him is weird, winning and hilarious. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The best way to take My Winnipeg is with a box of popcorn and a grain of salt. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Weird, fascinating and uproarious, My Winnipeg takes place not in chilly Manitoba but in the dreamscape of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin's overheated imagination. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: My Winnipeg is like no documentary you've ever seen. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The film, shot in black and white, like most of Maddin's creations, is a treat for fans and a migraine for the uninitiated or terminally dull. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: My Winnipeg is a mobile collage, and its assemblage is fascinating. Read more
Eddie Cockrell, Variety: Deep, rich sound accompanies distressed, often unfocused black-and-white shots of nighttime winter streets, garishly lit interiors and archival footage. Splashes of color in cut-out animation segs add to the texture. Read more
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Ingeniously madcap and heartfelt... more than just a whimsical curiosity, My Winnipeg takes an extraordinary leap forward... Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: My Winnipeg is Maddin's best filmmaking since the not-dissimilar confessional bargain-basement phantasmagoria, Cowards Bend the Knee. The editing is dense; the action is fluid. Read more
Philip Kennicott, Washington Post: An unhinged, utterly delightful 'documentary'. Read more