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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...lush, eventually torpid... considers youthful love, loss, and eros through the relationship between Toru, a university student, and emotionally fragile Naoko." (Read the full review...) 90 words, 01/13/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "The actors are so attractive they could be models for Vogue, and perhaps they are; certainly they're effective in their roles, which require a lot of soft, intimate dialogue." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 01/20/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...has the loose narrative structure of a quasi-poetic personal journal that is more a series of reflections than a cohesive story." (Read the full review...) 660 words, 01/06/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Despite the extended running time, director Tran Anh Hung is only able to skim the surface of Murakami's work. But that's enough to create a film more moving than most..." (Read the full review...) 222 words, 01/06/12 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...if writer-director Tran Anh Hung has stripped away much of the novel's connecting detail, he has successfully distilled its overwrought coming-of-age longings." (Read the full review...) 301 words, 01/27/12 Kyle Smith, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "For a sex movie, 'Norwegian Wood' is about as dry as a pocketful of sand. Even for a film set in a land that considers paper folding an exciting activity, this is dull stuff." (Read the full review...) 209 words, 01/06/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has it all. Everything, that is, except a way of making Watanabe a three-dimensional protagonist, something more than a conduit for everything that happens to him and around him." (Read the full review...) 284 words, 01/20/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "The actors are so attractive they could be models for Vogue, and perhaps they are; certainly they're effective in their roles, which require a lot of soft, intimate dialogue." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 01/20/12 Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "Like a rushed diner trying to sample everything in a sprawling multicourse meal... two and a half hours that offer barely a hint of the beloved 1987 cult novel's true flavor..." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 01/04/12 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a film that, like its characters, remains elusive in its motivations and therefore detached from its audience." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 03/02/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...the emotional geometry gets complicated yet never engaging. Although the actors all do their sensitive best, the screenplay robs them of any weight." (Read the full review...) 622 words, 03/02/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...simple, spare and beautiful.... more interested in capturing the delicate alchemy of a young man's romantic confusion than in relating a narrative." (Read the full review...) 155 words, 03/01/12
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "At times, the story seems to exist in the instant between wakefulness and sleep, a dreamy state that's also startlingly realistic." (Read the full review...) 478 words, 01/06/12 Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of the best of the year... will stick in your gut for a long time as you work your way through its ideas and emotions." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 03/16/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the story of an arty student in late '60s Japan, suffering some singular emotional crises.... But really, they're quandaries common to almost everyone, in any era." (Read the full review...) 443 words, 01/06/12 Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Murakami reportedly was waiting to sign off on the right director.... A master of mood and visuals, Tran proves an inspired choice." (Read the full review...) 204 words, 02/03/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...lush and ravishing... gives a sense of the unformed yearning and angst of young people roiled by their first grown-up loves. It doesn't hit you head on so much as seep into you..." (Read the full review...) 193 words, 03/02/12 Jody Mitori, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...contemplative... filled with muted performances and beautiful Japanese landscapes, but it also feels every bit of its 133 minutes." (Read the full review...) 110 words, 11/16/11
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "Like a rushed diner trying to sample everything in a sprawling multicourse meal... two and a half hours that offer barely a hint of the beloved 1987 cult novel's true flavor..." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 01/04/12 Sam Adams, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "An elegant, immaculately shot meditation on survival and loss... It's a film out of balance, sometimes tilting toward inspiration, but finally falling to earth." (Read the full review...) 403 words, 01/05/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (cg) "...captures the novel's delicate, half-hopeful, half-mournful tone. So why, unlike its source material, does it feel only half-alive?" (Read the full review...) 621 words, 01/06/12 Fernando F. Croce, Slant: GOOD (cg) "...languid-erotic... another trip to Japan's past, namely the late '60s when students took to street protests and the titular Beatles ballad seemed to throb for every doomed lover." (Read the full review...) 176 words, 09/13/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...simple, spare and beautiful.... more interested in capturing the delicate alchemy of a young man's romantic confusion than in relating a narrative." (Read the full review...) 155 words, 03/01/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...has the loose narrative structure of a quasi-poetic personal journal that is more a series of reflections than a cohesive story." (Read the full review...) 660 words, 01/06/12 Mark Jenkins, NPR: VERY GOOD "...deftly adapted by Franco-Vietnamese writer-director Tran Anh Hung... so febrile and spontaneous that it feels it's been summoned just by hearing a familiar line: 'I once had a girl...' " (Read the full review...) 592 words, 01/05/12 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...if writer-director Tran Anh Hung has stripped away much of the novel's connecting detail, he has successfully distilled its overwrought coming-of-age longings." (Read the full review...) 301 words, 01/27/12 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "I felt completely transported into a rapturous, swoony state of early-20s romance, that condition where you feel right at the edge of heartbreak and insanity.... wonderful, passionate, well-nigh unforgettable..." (Read the full review...) 852 words, 01/06/12
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...while this beautiful-looking film at times succeeds in capturing its source material's delicate emo spirit, it's far less attentive to the richness of Murakami's characters..." (Read the full review...) 928 words, 09/01/10 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Superb cinematography by Mark Lee Ping Bin creates a web of visual sensitivity that accompanies the characters on their emotional journey." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 10/14/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...if writer-director Tran Anh Hung has stripped away much of the novel's connecting detail, he has successfully distilled its overwrought coming-of-age longings." (Read the full review...) 301 words, 01/27/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...has the loose narrative structure of a quasi-poetic personal journal that is more a series of reflections than a cohesive story." (Read the full review...) 660 words, 01/06/12
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