Run Lola Run

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Fabulously kinetic.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Tykwer's style gives the movie an explosive energy that never quits, marking him as the most ingenious new talent to hail from Germany in ages.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

As essential in its own way as Anton Karas' celebrated zither work was to "The Third Man," Lola's music is perfectly suited to the film's aims and just about addictive in its throbbing, insinuating rhythms.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

An existential chain reaction, yet as remarkable as his cinematic gamesmanship is the way that he traces the anatomy of feeling in Lola.

Film Threat Chris Gore

I can't rave about this film enough -- this is passionate filmmaking at its best. One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen this year -- go see it!

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

The formula has rarely been done as well as it is in this goofy, audacious, visually stylized omnibus of what-ifs that operates on its own peculiar logic, and powers along with the force of a truck on the Autobahn.

Newsweek Andrea C. Basora

With her Doc Martens and her spiky, fire-engine hair, Franka Potente makes a perfect Lola. Like the film itself, her tough, flashy exterior cloaks a warm emotional center.

Variety David Rooney

A highly accomplished, compact feature, which, while it may be light on depth, is rich in humor, rhythm, energy and inventiveness.

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

A movie that really zips along; it offers some of the same pleasures as the silent slapstick comedies, particularly the Keaton films, with their sense of how sheer velocity carries its own wit.

Film.com Ernest Hardy

MTV, comic books and gangster flicks are all in Lola's cinematic family tree; it's a heady, breathless ride.

Film.com Gemma Files

The kind of thing Franz Kafka might have dreamed up, had he only had access to a daily dose of MTV.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

A knock-down, haywire ballad of the adrenalinization of love and despair.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Has as much depth as it has energy and action.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

It doesn’t add up to much, which is part of the point as well as the fun, but what makes the film noteworthy is its pure pop adrenaline.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The film's extra-special trick, the one that kicks in under your radar because it's so busy with all the flash, is that it makes you care deeply for Lola and Manni.

New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein

Wisely, Run Lola Run lasts something under 80 minutes; any longer, and it would have been as exhausting and boring as a half-hour Donna Summer track.

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Tykwer deliberately blows away all traces of the mundane and the familiar, so that not even the closing credit crawl moves in the expected way.

Slate David Edelstein

It's both fractured and fluid, with a helter-skelter syntax and a ceaselessly infectious backbeat. Beyond that, it's a blast.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The rush subsides, however, the minute the movie ends, and leaves the viewer with the faint aftertaste of a processed sugar high.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

I would not want to see a sequel to the film, and at 81 minutes it isn't a second too short, but what it does, it does cheerfully, with great energy, and very well.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Fun, fun, fun. Take the title at its word, because this movie is nothing less than a flat-out, lung-pumping, 76-minute sprint.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

The action is so fast that the viewer almost breaks out in a sweat...Ultimately vapid. Lola never does develop as a character, and the fuss seems ultimately pointless.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Furiously paced.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

Potente pumps strong and true from the first frame to the last.

Time Richard Corliss

Invigorating and annoying, Lola could use a dose of Ritalin. Best to take this 76-minute riff on alternate destinies as an antidote to Europe's minimalist art-house cinema and to enjoy Potente's sweaty radiance.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

An enjoyably glib and refreshingly terse exercise in big beat and constant motion.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Joshua Klein

May be all Eurotrash flash, but it's not often that a film packs this much visceral punch.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

About as entertaining as a no-brainer can be--a lot more fun, for my money, than a cornball theme-park ride like "Speed," and every bit as fast moving. But don't expect much of an aftertaste.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Kind of like watching a John Waters film on fast forward with all the good parts cut out. It's empty of charm and meaning, but it certainly kills time, for those who wish it dead.