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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Less a drama than a miniature double portrait, Jarmusch's film creates two people whose joy, not pain, is to be together forever. C'est l'amour. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: The movie is steeped in a world-weariness that flatters a certain kind of know-it-all. Swinton and Hiddleston, looking like twins, take disaffection to the moon. Not since Weekend at Bernie's have two actors done more to promote the cause of corpses. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Legendary hipster filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's wryly funny exercise in genre bending hits so many grace notes it ends up being his most satisfying film in years. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It's so elegant and dreamlike-such a departure from most vampire epics-that you won't be bored. It also has a wicked sense of humor you usually don't find in the genre. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Ms. Swinton and Mr. Hiddleston complement each other so elegantly that languor gives way to a genuinely affecting-and erotic-love story. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: You don't so much watch this movie as slink into it, joining an unlikely pair of lovers and enjoying their slouchy elegance. Read more
Leslie Felperin, Variety: A smidge more commercial than Jarmusch's meandering previous effort, "The Limits of Control." But it still feels like an in-joke intended only for select acolytes, who will probably love it with an undying passion. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: What's more, the vampire conceit, while superficially silly, has the salutary effect of throwing human mortality into stark relief, creating a carpe diem sensation without actually...[ END HERE ]..[ END HERE ]saying anything so bana Read more
A.A. Dowd, AV Club: Laying eyes on the film's piles upon piles of valuable junk-old recording equipment, leather-bound novels, cosmetic clutter-is a bit like rummaging through the director's attic. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: This is a film that finds horror not in the extreme, but in the mundane. That alone makes it a worthwhile entry in a genre that it both inhabits and rises above. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: In "Only Lovers Left Alive," writer-director Jim Jarmusch turns one of his silliest notions into one of the more affecting movies of his career. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: It's also one of [Jarmusch's] most visually expressive films, playing out amid ravishing nocturnal imagery that fits perfectly with the dark romantic tone. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Hiddleston is appropriately soggy in a Byronic kind of way, and Swinton, in a platinum-blond wig, gives the ultimate Tilda Swinton performance as a poetically famished vampiress. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Somehow it's all very entertaining and weird and fitting, with Detroit looking like a place any vampire would be happy to be. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: It's always a thrill to see what an artist as singular as Jarmusch will do next. I just wish that his foray into the world of the undead had a little more to sink its beautiful fangs into. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Almost nothing happens in this minor-key drift through a desolate, imperiled modern world, and yet it is the perennial downtown filmmaker's best work in many years, probably since 1995's Dead Man. Read more
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: One of the strongest films yet from Jim Jarmusch. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Even vampires get the blues. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Has undoubted panache, and wit to spare, especially when Swinton is in the frame. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: "Only Lovers Left Alive" marks an artist's welcome return. And the much-needed rescue of a classic monster from the grubby grip of tween novels. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR: A vampire flick as only Jim Jarmusch would ever conceive it, languidly poetic, worldweary and crammed with hipster in-jokes. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: This is a movie about the transcendent bond between partners who can communicate without speaking a word, so it's only fitting that the gorgeous cinematography perfectly captures the movie's emotional depths. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: There is something a bit musty about a romanticism that equates creativity with chemical dependency, and also something a little threadbare about the countercultural mystique that Adam and Eve embody. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: A sensual, funny, downtown-artist fantasy about the long-term marriage of two spectacularly attractive vampires. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Swinton, her hair white and long and her eyes tired and kind, and Hiddleston, moody and resigned, are wonderful - delivering their lines with the dry sighs of a desert breeze. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: [Director Jim] Jarmusch, as ever, has the power to sneak up on you. He's a spellbinder. The same goes for his movie. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's shot through with sadness and beauty, with dry humor, with the certainty that even things meant to last forever actually don't. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is a weak entry in the filmmaker's canon, a film that continues Jarmusch's rebellion against narrative while offering nothing in its place. Read more
Sharan Shetty, Slate: Rarely has Jarmusch's style been so inherently suited to his content. Stillness and silence, the cardinal virtues of his method, have never been so pertinent as in the lives of the undead. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Maybe it was to be expected that the vampire saga "Only Lovers Left Alive" has a sluggish pulse. Read more
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Only Lovers Left Alive" breathes new and intriguing life into the vampire genre. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Jim Jarmusch stocks his latest low-key indie with more than his usual characters in low-velocity drift. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Only Lovers is so fluidly edited and thinly plotted that it feels almost off-hand; yet, it's also made with great care, beautifully lit and set-designed to an eyelash. Read more
Toronto Star: No one here gets out alive in Jim Jarmusch's cool new vampire romance ... Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: It helps to have performers as radiant and watchable as Swinton and Hiddleston in the leads, but it's Jarmusch's direction and his smart screenplay that make Only Lovers Left Alive such a treat for mature audiences. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: There's something magical and magnetic about this world of mature, know-it-all, ultra-cool vampires that Jarmusch creates and somehow it never seems at all silly. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Sent me out into the full-mooned night, all senses elated, on a glad-to-be-alive high. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: In addition to unspooling an adult story of bloodsuckers, Lovers manages something few films have done in years: rendering Detroit scenically romantic. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: This is Jarmusch's most emotionally direct film since Dead Man, and maybe his finest. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The movie has its longeurs, but once you get on its wavelength it's hard to resist. Read more