“…an audacious melding of real-life experience and first-person filmmaking.”

“…equally hints at Jenkins’ influences and the idiosyncratic direction he will eventually head on his own.”

“…a portrait of an identity that refuses to be pinned down, for better and for worse.”

“…an awkward exercise in translating Wong kar-Wai to a Western setting.”

“…the weaving of a liminal soundspace.”

“Campion makes an unruly costume drama out of the 1881 novel by Henry James.”

“…swirls in melodrama and metaphor.”

“What a feast for Joan Crawford.”

“The movie’s likely patron saints are David Cronenberg and Claire Denis.”

“…dramatizes the life of Janet Frame in a way only Jane Campion could.”