Winter Sleepers

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Winter Sleepers has many such breathtaking moments in which sounds and images synergize with an explosive precision.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Though it was made before "Run Lola Run," feels like the work of a more seasoned heart and mind.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

A movie by a man who adores film and relishes its potential.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

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.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.

Film.com Tom Keogh

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.

TV Guide Ken Fox

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.

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

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.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Characters are manipulated and lives made whole in ways both satisfying and unexpected.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

A tedious, soapy romp about overlapping lives and destiny.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

I can't yet decide whether the film works or not, but it certainly held me for its full two hours.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's slow and pretentious, full of craggy Bavarian snowscapes and dour "mystical" portents that seem to circle back to nothing but themselves.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

A cold, emptily stylish exercise -- and one that sorely lacks the speed and vigor that made "Lola" run.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Unfolds in a shroud of nonspecific suggestiveness but never emerges from under it.