Offical website
Blu-rays, DVDs & more
eBay affliate link
Art of the Movies
Buy posters on MoviePoster.com
IMDb
The Kite Runner movie stills
Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The Kite Runner feels authentic in its ethnic tensions, even when the narrative itself, with its handily reappearing and easily avenged villain, undermines that authenticity. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: If nothing else, though, The Kite Runner does succeed in providing a vibrant window into a region of the world we might not have known and might have felt daunted to seek out. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The Afghan boys' kite-flying contests are the emotional core of the film, and Forster and his crew bring the camera into the sky and make it dip and soar along with the kites. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The powerful themes of loyalty, shame, and redemption tend to be muted by the same glass-table treatment Forster brought to Finding Neverland. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: In a movie about a storyteller (Amir as an adult in America is played by Khalid Abdalla) the storytelling pace moves between deliberate and sluggish. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: It's the childhood scenes, and the truthfulness of the boys' performances, that you remember. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's okay to be manipulated so long as you don't feel the strings being pulled. Here the tug is constant, and constantly distracting. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: [It] boasts one of the best performances by a child actor, ever. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The Kite Runner will be loved by many moviegoers for its taste and humanity, but for all the places Forster takes us he doesn't show us anything we haven't seen. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The Marc Forster-directed version of the Khaled Hosseini novel does one part of the story so well that its success underlines what's lacking in what remains. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This is one of those stories that, on some primal level, goes straight to the heart. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: If The Kite Runner flies only to flutter and fall a bit, at least it flies for a while. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [A] pretty good adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's pretty good 2003 best-seller. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The filmmakers go by the book in The Kite Runner, a literate, if occasionally listless adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Hosseini's over-done melodrama that doesn't so much open our eyes to Afghanistan as reinforce everything negative we've already suspected. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: By the time it arrives at its final kite-flying scene back in the Bay Area, The Kite Runner has soared occasionally, but remains too grounded for its own good in the book from which it was supposed to spring. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The film version of Khaled Hosseini's novel is so portentously sincere that you may feel like a cretin for embracing it with anything less than a full heart. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Forster's solid, unpretentious movie hits its marks squarely, and isn't afraid to wear its heart on its sleeve. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: The movie's heart is certainly in the right place -- it's a quietly outraged work -- but I wish there were more excitement in it from moment to moment. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This movie never gets started. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The movie has two extraordinary characters and performances. Non-pro Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada breaks your heart as the innocent, wide-eyed child Hassan, and Homayoun Ershadi makes Amir's father a model of intuitive decency. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: This is more an entertaining than a profound film. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Visually arresting, politically controversial, perhaps its greatest virtue is its simple message of making wrong right. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A heartfelt saga of cruelty redeemed by belated love. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: At times brutal, at times touching, the movie stands out as one of the better 'prestige' productions offered for cinematic consumption during the waning weeks of 2007. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: How long has it been since you saw a movie that succeeds as pure story? That doesn't depend on stars, effects or genres, but simply fascinates you with how it will turn out? Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There's a lethargy and a reverence about this film that seem misplaced, as though Forster and screenwriter David Benioff thought they were adapting a sacred text and forgot they were making drama. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A respectful adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Sure, the movie doesn't have the heart of the book, but it does have a solid mechanical pump, strong enough at least to keep a robust story on two-hour life support. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The Kite Runner has become that most unfortunate of awards-season Hollywood casualties: a worthy bore. Read more
Time Out: The film's belief in the power of redemption and its subtle assertion of the need for moral courage in personal (or political) conflict, is never allowed to get in the way of its boldly told, intelligent, informed and affecting story. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The Kite Runner is a compelling and uplifting tale that exposes the viewer to an unfamiliar, fascinating culture and a family dynamic that is recognizable and nuanced. Read more
Alissa Simon, Variety: Nuanced perfs and standout production design convey story in cinematic terms, preserving the narrative's emotional power and historical sweep as it spans continents and decades. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: Armed with a capably hands-off screenplay by David Benioff, [Forster] made a drama as bland and beige as its tasteful palette, whose pacing wouldn't look out of place in the Sunday-night slot on PBS. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: A film of exhilarating, redemptive humanity, conveying an enduring sense of hope. Read more