Onegin

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A pleasure in all ways.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Few things are more enthralling than unrequited love, as demonstrated by this drama.

Film.com Peter Brunette

A deliciously romantic story, in all senses of the word.

Time Richard Schickel

Handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

A riveting, unsentimental tragedy of unrequited love.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

The pace slackens a little after the first hour, but the photography by Remi Adefarasin and music by Magnus Fiennes keep the emotion stoked.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Hot-blooded.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Fiennes does this sort of inner pain thing exceedingly well, Tyler is beguiling and believable, and there is an edge of wit and grace to the proceedings.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

(Fiennes's) Onegin is clueless to anything other than the sensual world, and is finally more repellent than sympathetic.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

A handsome, somewhat draggy and abrupt film that's more memorable in snippets than as a whole.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Despite Fiennes' splendid moodiness and Tyler's radiant vulnerability, despite lovely settings... this movie is dull.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

There is a cool, mannered elegance to the picture that I like, but it's dead at its center.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

A confident and promising directorial debut, one that has the feel of an experienced director to it, from the hypnotic unfolding of scenes to the finely observed character details.

Film.com Robert Horton

(Tyler's) voice is still mall American, and Onegin's rejection of her is nowhere near as puzzling or as tragic as it's supposed to be.

Austin Chronicle Editor

A sumptuous yet unexceptional story.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Overall, this is the kind of thing that gives literary adaptations their bad name.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Makes you appreciate opera, or NoDoz.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Would have been a stronger movie if it didn't require a strong cup of coffee going in.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy clichés.