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Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Sun-Times: The entrancing fifth feature of the Zellner brothers, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, is like found art in the beguiling, haunting manner it combines the seemingly ridiculous and desperate with an ineffable and quiet sadness. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: Kumiko feels like a collection of amusing and/or depressing riffs stitched together within a context that barely matters. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: If you're in the mood for something different, you're in luck: "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" takes elements of the traditional quest story into completely new places. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: As portraits of mental illness go, "Kumiko" is slender but even-handed, neither romanticizing its heroine's mania nor tipping into melodrama or horror. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: An engaging, even surprising feature. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: File this one under "odd and interesting but ... " Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Is Kumiko simply naive, or is she mentally ill? The film's perfect ending doesn't try to solve that riddle, but it will make you feel as if you've just seen something hypnotically original. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A work of rigorously disciplined eccentricity, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is at once entirely accessible and yet appealing only to a rarified crowd ready to key into its narrow-bandwidth sense of humor. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses Fargo, the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life. Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: Is the story, and its heroine's fate, a fairy tale or a delusion? If the former, the movie is as sweet as a Disney-inspired anime. If the latter, Kumiko is deeply sad. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: The specifics of this movie are engaging, but the big picture stays buried. Read more
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: A delicate, haunting study of a woman who has in several senses lost her way. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: If Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter takes its time, it's time worth taking. Read more
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press: A haunting, fantasy adventure for the ages in one of this century's most breathtaking independent films. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: The filmmaking team of David and Nathan Zellner... have channeled Kumiko's visionary madness into a memorable, haunting and highly original American movie. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: In the title role, Kikuchi is impressive, easily handling Kumiko's comic and more somber sides and never allowing us to settle into a single or simple interpretation of the character. Read more
Dan Kois, Slate: I can't say that this austere, beautiful movie satisfied my impatient desire for answers. (It seems, in fact, to be a rebuttal to that desire.) But I'll be thinking about Kumiko's journey for a long time. Read more
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Odd, mystical, strikingly original ... Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" is a supple combination of Little Red Riding Hood adventure, ironic road film and cross-cultural confusion. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Kumiko's unique vision makes for humour and pathos in David Zellner's film. Read more
Tom Huddleston, Time Out: A fascinating - at times illuminating - tightrope act, but rarely an enjoyable one. Read more
Brian Truitt, USA Today: Kikuchi brought humanity to the robots-vs.-monsters action of Pacific Rim in a small supporting role, and she ups that much more with the meek title character of Kumiko ... Read more
Nick Schager, Village Voice: A deranged pseudo-feminist fable, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter takes its tedious time getting to its unrewarding destination. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: At her best, Kikuchi evokes the little match girl, bathing her bleak existence with too-brief warmth. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The film's steady accumulation of little quirks - such as the fact that Kumiko has embroidered her treasure map on a piece of fabric, using a freeze-frame from "Fargo" as a template - soon grow tedious. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: What I saw was a case of filmmakers blissed out on their own hermetic concept. Read more