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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It effectively explains why we obsess over movies and rock and roll and honest communication long after those passions have been hijacked by parodists and advertising agencies. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The entire film is a charged sensory experience -- a cinematic turn-on. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [A] provocative, sensual feast. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a movie so physically beautiful and ardent that it can make you fall in love or lust against better judgment. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A rare movie made by and for adults, haunts its watcher for some time, despite its shortcomings. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic before it heads south in the final stretch. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: If you don't glow with the same pleasure [Bertolucci] feels when the characters in The Dreamers alternate brashness with callow immaturity, you're going to be in for a very long evening. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Its nostalgia and narcissism are ultimately two versions of the same thing, and neither can reopen cross-cultural channels. Instead they keep this story stuck in the past, frozen and intact and irrelevant. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: It is a well-made film in many ways, but I found in the callowness of these youths nothing to admire. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: A rich movie filling the viewer with a four-course French meal of sensuality, politics, ideas and character. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Bertolucci is so drunk on deja vu he has made a movie that's really a flossy assemblage of Bertolucci signifiers. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A film about youthful passion -- for sex, for politics, for music and, above all, for film itself -- that feels passionless. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Ambitious and uneven, visceral and pungent. Read more
F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly: A wise, high-energy conjuring of 1968. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: The dialogue is so trite you wouldn't want to be that young again ... and the rococo nature of the erotic entanglements make one pine for the relatively old-fashioned romance of Last Tango in Paris. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Exhilarating. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This isn't one of those old 'adults-only' movies. This is, simply, a movie only for adults -- and worthy of their attention and debate. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: For the easily titillated, among whose company I count myself, the rewards are plenty in this curious menage a trois among college students in 1968 Paris. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A film about youth and passion that seems old and passionless. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Bernardo Bertolucci's new film is an ardently romantic love song to sex, cinema and the spirit of the 60's. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: At a reflective and still romantic 63, Mr. Bertolucci pays heartfelt hommage to Henri Langlois' famous theater, Cinematheque Francaise. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: Swept away by the intensity of the characters' movie debates and sexual games, Bertolucci often recaptures the film-besotted spirit of the period. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Above all it evokes a time when the movies -- good movies, both classic and newborn -- were at the center of youth culture. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: An ambitious and exciting piece of work, a movie about sex and movies made by a filmmaker who understands the power of each to set off fantasy, create addiction, incite danger and transform the spirit. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: It's possible that the NC-17 has never been used to such PG-13 ends. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's wonderful to see a film that takes back sex from the smutty teen comedies, that grapples with political ideas and shouts its love of cinema from the rooftops. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Anyone seeking cheap titillation would do better to invest their movie cash in a fresh copy of Playboy or Penthouse than to spend the two hours of contemplation needed to fully appreciate the myriad layers of The Dreamers. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Grim and joyless. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: The siblings, in particular, grow so irritating with their cultural tunnel-vision that even the film's explicit sex grows monotonous, and its lack of humor grows irritating. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Bad, but unlike the similarly camped-up Little Buddha or Stealing Beauty, it's not exactly boring. Read more