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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A real vision of glamour and lost innocence. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: This film raises its fascination with enveloping atmosphere and suppressed emotion to a ravishing, almost hypnotic level. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: It's intelligently conceived, exquisitely crafted and flawlessly acted. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Shot through with spirals of cigarette smoke and blazing with the colors and geometry of '60s textile design, In the Mood for Love is a feast for the eyes and succor for the soul, examining the secrets that join men and women, and that keep them apart. Read more
Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: Surrender yourself to Wong's intentions and the effect, like love at its most heady, is narcotic. Read more
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: It's great when a director takes a chance. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The film is gorgeous, dripping with texture and sensuality and, well, mood. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: In the Mood for Love is probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever. Read more
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post: Rapturously elegant and deeply sexy in a deliciously restrained way, Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love is one of the most romantic movies I have ever seen, right up there with Brief Encounter and Casablanca. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: In The Mood For Love demands to be seen at least twice, and it would reward third and fourth viewings. You could spend one of them just marvelling at Cheung's incredible dresses, watching how the colours affect the emotional hue of the moment. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Further complemented by the gentle lull of Nat King Cole songs, In The Mood For Love casts a dreamy and melancholic spell that remains unbroken long after the closing credits have rolled. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Director Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong's most romantic filmmaker, is known for his excesses, and in that sense the film's spareness represents a bold departure. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The film's moods are set by the music, which features Nat King Cole singing love songs in Spanish, and by the amazing art direction and cinematography, which call to mind the intricately designed drawings of Alex Toth, Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: What holds you, besides the perfectly realized period atmosphere, is the magnetism of Leung and Cheung, both of whom are at once sexy and profound. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: So skillfully does the director brings us to a state of breathless expectation that when he refuses to deliver the goods he almost seems to have invented a new form of perversion. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Wong Kar-wai tricks up the schmaltz with a lot of avant-garde filigree. He's that most suspect of hybrids: a pop-schlock aesthete. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: In the Mood is a love story told from the point of impact, at the heart, and no conventional resolution could be more profound. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Instead of asking us to identify with this couple, as an American film would, Wong asks us to empathize with them; that is a higher and more complex assignment, with greater rewards. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Has a movie ever smoldered more ravishingly with the promise of sex than In the Mood for Love? Not in recent memory. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Plotwise, not much happens. But when the movie's over you feel that it has taken you somewhere. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: In one sense it's like an erotic dream that dissolves before fulfillment; in another sense In the Mood suggests that the lovers are remembering the fragmented incidents of this tale from the distance of time. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Stylized, set-designed to the last hair wisp, the film is a mixture of bold devices with delicate understatement that leave a remarkable aftereffect. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Recommended to anyone who's ever felt the fear and lure of falling in love. Read more
Tony Rayns, Time Out: Every charged frame of the film pulses with the central contradiction between repression and emotional abandon; the formalism and sensuality are inextricable. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: Dazzles with a heady atmosphere of romantic melancholy and ravishing visuals ... but neglects to construct the kind of dramatic complexity to provide any lasting emotional resonance. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Governed by laws as strict as the old Hollywood production code, it's rhapsodically sublimated and ultimately sublime. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It takes a simple story, the restraint and growing passion between two people whose spouses are cheating on them, and plays endless blue notes into the steamy morning hours. In the Mood for Love... is more than a romance. It's about the jazz of the heart. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: I wish I could report that a feverish erotic tension builds, but it really doesn't. Read more