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Metascore
24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterLike the best of poems, it doesn't lend itself to easy understanding. But, like the best of poems, it's extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect.
- 60Dallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufDallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufThere's a somber tone to Petroni's work here--enhanced by Roger Lanser's shadowy cinematography and handicapped a bit by a schmaltzy Hollywood-type score--and there's also plenty of episodic life stuff.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittPetroni's directorial debut is too bittersweet and atmospheric for its own good, wrapping a potentially strong story in too many layers of misty emotion.
- 50VarietyDavid StrattonVarietyDavid StrattonThis dank, gloomy essay into the supernatural tries hard to create an intriguing mood in which fate guides the lives of its wounded protagonists, but few will be interested in the outcome.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleStays emotionally mired because of a static screenplay that fails to express its issues dramatically.
- 50Boston GlobeJanice PageBoston GlobeJanice PageDespite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliQuickly causes viewers to lose patience, then interest.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSo busy building its symbolic frame that it forgets to develop its characters, or even to make them likable.
- 40Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumI was seduced part of the time, thanks largely to Bonham Carter's sensuality, but the whole is unsatisfying, and it's tempting to see the imposed recutting as a major source of the problem.
- 20L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorI can find nothing nice to note about this excruciatingly slow, overly tasteful piece of whimsy.