Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times
Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Winter Sleepers has many such breathtaking moments in which sounds and images synergize with an explosive precision.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Though it was made before "Run Lola Run," feels like the work of a more seasoned heart and mind.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A movie by a man who adores film and relishes its potential.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
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.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.
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| 70 |
Film.com
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.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
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.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Characters are manipulated and lives made whole in ways both satisfying and unexpected.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
A tedious, soapy romp about overlapping lives and destiny.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
I can't yet decide whether the film works or not, but it certainly held me for its full two hours.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
It's slow and pretentious, full of craggy Bavarian snowscapes and dour "mystical" portents that seem to circle back to nothing but themselves.
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| 50 |
New York Post
A cold, emptily stylish exercise -- and one that sorely lacks the speed and vigor that made "Lola" run.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Unfolds in a shroud of nonspecific suggestiveness but never emerges from under it.
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