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Mary Corliss, TIME Magazine: With supreme confidence and an informed, infectious fondness for his subject, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius manages to embrace contradictions and then resolve them with supreme comic grace. Read more
Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Unfettered by irony, inspiring the kind of spontaneous emotional response we yearn for at the multiplex, [it] immerses us in joyful illusion, a world of movies within movies. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: This is not a work of film history but rather a generous, touching and slightly daffy expression of unbridled movie love. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Exuberantly entertaining and an emotional grower on reflection, Michel Hazanavicius's backstage drama takes the old A Star Is Born plot and makes it sing (very quietly). Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: In a time when movies often are sonic assaults, and meaning can be lost amid the clatter of explosions, gunshots and screeching cars, The Artist has an utterly beguiling purity. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a gentle, wistful tale, but with an ending so joyous and movie-magical that you just might dance out of the theater. (I did.) Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Throughout, Hazanavicius finds clever, poetic ways to illustrate the allure of Golden Age Hollywood stardom... Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "The Artist" is such an engaging, delightful film that, if you like movies, you will walk out of the theater with a smile. You just will; it's that inspired. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: "The Artist" is propelled by its performances, particularly Dujardin's. He has an exquisite elegance, and builds a whole movie with only his gestures. It's impossible to imagine "The Artist" without him, the wellspring of its charm. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: "The Artist'' is a small, exquisitely-cut jewel in a style everyone assumes is 80 years out of date. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This effort often manages to duplicate the magical pantomime of the era; a lovely scene in which Bejo drapes herself in the arms of a hung jacket as if it were a human lover could have come straight out of a Marion Davies picture. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Is "The Artist" a screwball comedy? A sentimental melodrama? A spoof? Serious? What? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Read more
Mark Rabinowitz, CNN.com: There is literally nothing wrong with it. I don't have a single nit to pick, minor flaw to point out or little bit that annoyed me. It is pure magic from the first frame to the last. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's a big, beribboned heart-tugger of a movie and Dujardin, who won the best actor award this year at Cannes, is a charming mimic of silent-film physicality. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The Artist is charming as all get-out, a delightful little movie about the movies. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A silent movie shot in sumptuous black-and-white, no less. A silent flick made with not a jot of distancing winking, but instead born of a heady affection for a bygone, very bygone, era of filmmaking. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The Artist is the most surprising and delightful film of 2011. Read more
Christopher Kelly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white, mostly silent comedy The Artist is a gorgeously made curiosity -- a film that functions as a testament to its own obsession with other movies. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As it opens, we're watching an audience watch a silent adventure film, and in a funny way we spend the rest of the movie watching ourselves get swept up in conventions we can see through. Read more
William Goss, Film.com: A cheeky trifle whose present-day novelty of being, well, silent and black-and-white carries it a long way. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A beguiling tale about Hollywood's silent movie days that is itself silent, this made-in-L.A. French feature will charm cinephiles with its affection for one of the movies' golden ages. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "The Artist" is the wonder of the age, as much a miracle as "Avatar," though it comes at things from the totally opposite direction. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: Now, that's what I call entertainment. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Sends you home with your head in the clouds, intoxicated by the magic movies pull off better than any other art form. Read more
David Thomson, The New Republic: The whole thing is so damn clever and charming, it might just sneak off with Best Picture. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: It isn't arty or intellectual, though it is artful and ingenious, and it's the rare crowd-pleaser that never feels obvious or pandering. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: What Hazanavicius has wrought is damnably clever, but not cute; less like an arch conceit and more like the needle-sharp recollection of a dream. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Says something about stubbornness and ego (look at the pretension in that title again) and about the dangers everyone faces when they refuse to see that their world is changing around them. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR: Silent black-and-white movies are not coming back, but this one is such a rewarding labor of love by all of the artists involved that it just might make you wish they could. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: "The Artist" should appeal to anyone willing to take a chance. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Literally the kind of movie they just don't make anymore... Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The Artist is so wonderful that the audience applauds everything, including the dog. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Strangely, wonderfully, The Artist feels as bold and innovative a moviegoing experience as James Cameron's bells-and-whistles Avatar did a couple of years ago. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For a movie that is so much about technique, it's surprising how affecting the story is. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: Yes, it's virtually silent, it's black-and-white, and you might not know the leads. But if you don't take a chance on this film, we can't be friends any more. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The Artist encapsulates everything we go to movies for: action, laughs, tears and a chance to get lost in another world. How can Oscar resist? Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A project so idiosyncratic, so unlikely, so simultaneously innocent and sophisticated that it could only have been devised by the French. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: In many ways - in all ways - "The Artist" is a profound achievement. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: This slight but enormously likable picture seems destined to be an awards magnet: A holiday release with enough formal sophistication to appeal to cinephiles and enough old-fashioned showbiz bravado to win over a general audience. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a rocket to the moon fueled by unadulterated joy and pure imagination. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The Artist" may be too cute to qualify as high art, but it's highly entertaining. Read more
Jon Frosch, The Atlantic: The movie ever fully shakes off its air of skillfully executed experiment, but it's spirited and charming nonetheless. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: My, The Artist is delightful, ingenious, funny, poignant and, in its own small way, profound. Put Oscar on high alert. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The Artist is a rarity, an ingenious crowd-pleaser. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: A crowd-pleaser even if you aren't steeped in film lore. As the old posters used to promise, it's got Comedy! Romance! Thrills! (As well as one of the most charming trained dogs you've ever seen on the big screen.) Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: The Artist never feels like a parody or a good idea that becomes laborious in the execution. It's lovingly corny, great fun, good-looking and respectful. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: You can't fault it as smart entertainment, which eschews parody to make a sincere tribute that also serves as cogent current commentary. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: Dujardin turns his impeccable imitation skills on a host of early film stars, combining Rudolph Valentino's smoldering appeal and slicked-back hair with Errol Flynn's panache and pencil moustache, while preserving an essential sincerity in the process. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie since the days of the Gish sisters. It might also be the first silent film many of its viewers have ever seen. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white throwback to cinema's silent era may seem steeped in fusty nostalgia, but it glitters and gleams with utterly of-the-moment wit and romantic zest. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The Artist may have started as a daring stunt, but it elevates itself to an endearing -- and probably enduring -- delight. Read more