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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: On visual terms alone, The City of Lost Children is something of a masterpiece, using state-of-the-art physical, optical and digital special effects to stretch cinematic boundaries. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Set in a wondrously seedy waterfront world populated with runaway children and grotesque, sinister adults, it glistens with dense fantasies, technological feats that make the catch-phrase "state of the art" seem antique. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The City of Lost Children is a stunningly surreal fantasy, a fable of longing and danger, of heroic deeds and bravery, set in a brilliantly realized world of its own. It is one of the most audacious, original films of the year. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: The City of Lost Children gets so caught up in its own weirdness that it all but shuts out the viewer. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Essentially, The City of Lost Children is a macabre fairy tale, and while its tentacled comic-book plot and freak-show cast narrow its appeal -- this isn't a work of any allegorical depth -- Caro and Jeunet have pulled off a cinematic delight. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Watching the film is like leafing through a giant sketchbook crammed with intriguing ideas that can't all be comfortably fitted into the same master plan. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The emotions seem almost as manufactured as the sets. Read more
Michael Sragow, New Yorker: Jeunet and Caro have distinctive signatures like nobody else's. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: An empty triumph of overkill set design and weirdo casting. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The City of Lost Children is as visually striking and daringly offbeat as its predecessor. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Many people will probably not find themselves sympathetic to this movie's overachieving technological pretensions, while others will find it the best film in months or years. Read more
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: The French fantasy adventure The City of Lost Children is a dark phantasmagoria so visually amazing and provocative -- yet dense and confusing -- that viewers may need to see it more than once to take it all in. Read more