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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Takes place against a frigid canvas gorgeously captured by Alwin Kuchler. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: In returning again to the work of Hardy, the director has chosen the perfect visual metaphor, placing the story in the breathtaking winterscape of the Sierra Nevadas (actually Alberta's Rockies, standing in). . Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: A languorously muted, occasionally magnificent film. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: The mixture of realism and melodrama fails to click. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: True to its source, finding the seed of all great epics in the divisions of the heart. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A moody, mesmerizing tale of attempted redemption, bursting with unexpected images. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Sadly the film is so elusive, so distant, that it never seems more than half-alive. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A mournful, poetic, epic movie that lodges in the memory. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Easily the most compelling Western to hit our screens since Unforgiven. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The cast is individually intelligent, refined, and understated. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The audience is simply left with the task of fitting together the allegory's easy pieces. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A movie like this rides on its cinematography, and Alwin H. Kuchler evokes the cold darkness so convincingly that Kingdom Come seems built on an abyss. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Moves so freely, evolves so naturally, that it's easy to overlook just how dicey an undertaking it is. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: A rich emotional experience, ranging in degree from fire to ice. Read more
Emanuel Levy, Variety: It suffers from a slim and fractured narrative, unengaging mode of storytelling and yet another irritating performance from Milla Jovovich. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A numb, oddly dispassionate trudge toward predestined doom, inevitable in all the wrong ways. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's all there, visually speaking, yet not quite there dramatically. Read more