Black Cat, White Cat

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Astonishing, crazily delightful.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

A warm embrace of tradition and boisterous, ethnographically rich local culture.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It romps along with infectious good humor but continually imparts a sense that underneath all the surreal frivolity lurks a scathing allegory of modern-day Balkan troubles.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

The perfect film for anyone who finds the Keystone Cops a little too understated and I mean that as a compliment.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

One frenetic movie that doesn't know when to quit -- and leaves you wishing it could go on forever.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

An explosive experience...and you have to love the movie's rabid energy and lust.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

There's something almost wearying as well as exhilarating about the perpetual brilliance of Bosnian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica.

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Made with such overriding jubilation that its coarseness is mostly liberating...well worth admiring for its sheer glee.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Kusturica works marvels with his endlessly amusing cast, and his film has an appealingly free and easy tone.

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends, new loves and the mad scramble of life at the fringe.

New York Post Rod Dreher

(Kusturica) celebrates its gaudy humanity in a joyous picture that is his most lighthearted and amusing work to date.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

This is not comfortable comedy.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

The gusto in the flying bullets, the fleeing lovers, and the flowing music will make you want to hang around until the party is over.

TV Guide Ken Fox

A wild, endlessly inventive romp set in a post-war world so full of machine-guns and hand-grenades that people barely flinch when one or the other goes off.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

It's thrilling to see something this profane, mythic and, most of all, not bored with life, love and the possibilities of cinema.

Film.com Henry Cabot Beck

An absurdist Eastern European version of "The Godfather," starring the Marx Brothers (and sisters and nephews and...).

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Farcical mayhem. A convoluted plot that's easy to follow but hard to describe.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The slapstick is broad to the point of overkill.

Film.com Robert Horton

There is a point in the movie when this mayhem crosses the line from wildly imaginative to downright insufferable.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Their shenanigans rarely run short of explosive energy.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

Determined to twist every character into an ideogram for vulgar humanity.