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Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Some fantasy films make the leap from reality to reverie relatively seamlessly, hopscotching between the two states without leaving the audience behind. Tropical Malady is not one of those. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: For an exquisite taste of sensory cinema, look no further. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: An intriguing emotional and intellectual puzzle that made me feel exhilarated and contemplative. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Tropical Malady is the work of a visionary fabulist. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There is no loss of art-movie face to be had, I assure you, in admitting difficulty with the filmmaker's intentional tangle of genres as he stakes his story between waking life and legend. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: This may be one of the most rapturously original, mysteriously beautiful love stories ever told -- Baboon-language skills optional. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A few adventurous souls who have taken their malaria shots will be blown away by writer-director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's brilliant tinkering with narrative and visuals to tell a simple, timeless story in a wholly new and exciting way. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: With this fractured love story, the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul pushes at the limits of narrative with grace and a puckish willfulness. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's not the kind of movie you simply leave behind in the theater. It will follow you home, leaving only a trail of soft, invisible paw prints. Read more
Deborah Young, Variety: Takes the viewer on a mysterious and sporadically fascinating trip into the darkness of the human heart and Thai legend, but only after an hour of a weakly structured story about two young men who are attracted to each other. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: World cinema's premier maker of mysterious objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul is on a one-man mission to change the way we watch movies. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The film evolves into something deeper, a story about the atavistic wildness within people. Read more