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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The comic-dramatic divide of A Very Long Engagement is difficult to traverse, much less conquer. It's simply hard to be charmed with all those corpses scattered about. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: There's only so much candy the eye can consume before nausea sets in. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: [Jeunet] strikes a giddy balance between comedy and terror, romance and incandescent action, between the demands of his huge canvas and his intimate emotional subject. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A Very Long Engagement works on its own terms, as a showcase for Tautou and as a reminder of the kind of beauty that movies, at their best, can show us. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: A Very Long Engagement leaves you feeling stuffed but satisfied, like after a very long, tasty meal. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Visually it is one of the most impressive films of the year. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: Artifice, this brilliantly handled, is its own excuse. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: You probably need a score card to keep track of everybody, but that's one of the pleasures of Jeunet's film, and it's also inextricable from his larger point: that war dehumanizes but people re-humanize. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: All in all, Jeunet makes a pretty case for the idea that life is ruled by chaos and chance, but made meaningful and worthwhile by love. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: What they cut from the novel ... doesn't cause as many problems as what they add, which is often too bizarre or too whimsical for a story about death. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The overall assemblage is shaky, but grand. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: A Very Long Engagement gets better with each half-hour, and by the end has painted a moving portrait of hope, determination, tragedy and loss. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There is a handsome, absurdist humanity to the way Jeunet (who wrote the script with Guillaume Laurant) maps out the crossroads of human carnage and human caring. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Right up to its haunting final scene, A Very Long Engagement will alternately shake you up and soothe you. And that's a very good combination. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Jeunet is a big kid, smart and playful but uneasy around adult emotions, which in his new movie are reduced to glib polarities of light versus dark, love versus vengeance. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Jeunet's reliance on magic-realist devices just falls flat, and Tautou's character -- a lame girl who plays the tuba -- is treated with the sort of condescending pity the movies haven't seen since Johnny Belinda. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: This is a picture well worth seeing. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Mr. Jeunet shows no interest in animating the characters in his dollhouse world, and even Mathilde and her tears remain fundamentally decorative, as arid as the computer-assisted cinematography. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Tautou, as always, makes this an enchanting trip. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A film that is a series of pleasures stumbling over one another in their haste to delight us. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The mixture of a trickster director and classic movie conventions works better than you'd expect it to. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Merging heart-wrenching emotions with quirky humor and splicing bloody war footage with goofy comedy, the movie mixes vastly disparate elements into a surprisingly smooth blend. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A Very Long Engagement is certainly long and not always engaging and comes with a predictably basic ending, yet there are unexpected pleasures, moments of beauty and tiny pockets of joy to sustain you through the journey. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: There's something hollow beneath its polished surface. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: This is a long movie that almost wears out its 2 1/4 -hour welcome, yet it's full of surprises. Read more
Lisa Nesselson, Variety: Told with a blend of visual mastery and emotional intimacy, ambitious venture sustains a special melding of romance and pragmatism that should engage discerning audiences. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Narrative thrust has never been the director's strong suit, and the movie gridlocks amid its crowds of characters, backstories, detours, and twists; the squealing gears of heavy plot machinery eventually drown out much else. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Extraordinary film. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Jeunet's movie is a game of great singles inside an overextended ballgame. Read more