“A powder keg of movie-musical performances…”

“…registers most strongly as a tragic character study.”

“…filters highbrow influences through colored 1970s strobe lights.”

“To say that The Tales of Hoffmann is nightmare fuel is not to denigrate it.”

“Wyler may have been the perfect choice to center Streisand, for the first time, on the big screen.”

“More Paul King than Roald Dahl…”

“If a novel is unfilmable anyway, why not take a wild shot at it?”

“Another lo-fi fantasy from writer-director John Carney…”

“…explores a strange dimension — a poetic, protesting echo of our own.”

“Shoddy in conception and construction…”