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Winter Sleepers
Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    90
    Winter Sleepers has many such breathtaking moments in which sounds and images synergize with an explosive precision.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    88
    Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.
  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    Though it was made before "Run Lola Run," feels like the work of a more seasoned heart and mind.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    75
    Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    75
    A movie by a man who adores film and relishes its potential.
  7. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    75
    While it lacks the experimental razzle-dazzle of "Lola," the film is a similarly confident and fetching look at love, coincidence, tragedy and fate among the young, the bored and the beautiful.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    From its ominous opening to its spectacular climactic stunt, the hypnotic precursor to director Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" is a quieter but creepier affair.
  9. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    70
    Technically, the movie occasionally rises to become awe-inspiring, and while sometimes you can smell the acting (especially from Matthes), the performances are often soulful.
  10. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    70
    As he did in "Run Lola Run," he has clearly patented an original combination of cinematic eye and ear candy and a profound, irresistible fascination for the role of chance in this world.
  11. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    A tedious, soapy romp about overlapping lives and destiny.
  12. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    63
    Characters are manipulated and lives made whole in ways both satisfying and unexpected.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    60
    I can't yet decide whether the film works or not, but it certainly held me for its full two hours.
  14. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    58
    It's slow and pretentious, full of craggy Bavarian snowscapes and dour "mystical" portents that seem to circle back to nothing but themselves.
  15. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    A cold, emptily stylish exercise -- and one that sorely lacks the speed and vigor that made "Lola" run.
  16. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    50
    Unfolds in a shroud of nonspecific suggestiveness but never emerges from under it.
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