Price of Milk, The

Village Voice Edward Crouse

A 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.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Manages to be innocent, physically passionate, earnestly romantic and self-deprecatingly funny, all at once.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Like nothing else that's played in months.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

The 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.

Los Angeles Times John Anderson

It's weird, wacky territory you enter in The Price of Milk, and we don't just mean New Zealand.

Variety David Rooney

Full of surreal occurrences and bizarre, sometimes overly precious humor that may make it too rarefied an exercise for wide acceptance.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Easily 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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

This journey is clunkily rendered, clouded by an avalanche of murky symbolism.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

A modern-day fable about love and commitment — it's different.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

This rich, gorgeous music and the wistful pastoral scenes create a rhapsodic mood that the rest of the film doesn't really sustain.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Fairy-tale-like musing on true love in cynical times.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

There is a place for whimsy and magic realism, and that place may not be on a cow farm in New Zealand.

Film.com Tom Keogh

In the tradition of "Sunrise" and "Eyes Wide Shut," crises set the characters on a kind of dreamy, nocturnal journey through chaos and fear.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

The trouble is that it's so lead-footed and delighted with itself even as bit after bit sinks like a lead weight.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

This sort of thing is the problem with making stuff up as you go along.

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

Gets points for oddness. Excellence is another matter.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

The 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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

A whimsical modern fairy tale.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

If 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.