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80A shaggy, appealing parable involving two lovers, some gorgeous heifers, gentle Maori gangster-golfers, and a dilapidated suitcase packed with used baby shoes, The Price of Milk throws itself onto the magic-realist sword with aplomb.
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80Manages to be innocent, physically passionate, earnestly romantic and self-deprecatingly funny, all at once.
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80Like nothing else that's played in months.
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75The Price of Milk, which boasts a lush classical score recorded by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, has a few more twists that make this a Valentine's Day delight.
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70It's weird, wacky territory you enter in The Price of Milk, and we don't just mean New Zealand.
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70Full of surreal occurrences and bizarre, sometimes overly precious humor that may make it too rarefied an exercise for wide acceptance.
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60Easily one of the oddest romantic comedies since "My New Gun." It's also one of the most visually inventive, and if its charms very nearly defy description, it's nonetheless irresistible.
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58This journey is clunkily rendered, clouded by an avalanche of murky symbolism.
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50There is a place for whimsy and magic realism, and that place may not be on a cow farm in New Zealand.
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50This rich, gorgeous music and the wistful pastoral scenes create a rhapsodic mood that the rest of the film doesn't really sustain.
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50A modern-day fable about love and commitment — it's different.
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50Fairy-tale-like musing on true love in cynical times.
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40In the tradition of "Sunrise" and "Eyes Wide Shut," crises set the characters on a kind of dreamy, nocturnal journey through chaos and fear.
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33The trouble is that it's so lead-footed and delighted with itself even as bit after bit sinks like a lead weight.
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30Gets points for oddness. Excellence is another matter.
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30This sort of thing is the problem with making stuff up as you go along.
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30The guiding philosophy of The Price of Milk seems to be that if you throw something on the screen and call it a fairy tale, it has to mean something. But it doesn't.
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25If a mildly magical story is what you're after, it'll be worth the price of admission. Otherwise save your milk money for something more substantial.
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25A whimsical modern fairy tale.
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