100 Village Voice | Michael Atkinson In today's digital bog of empty light and marketing deceptions, this is what early-millennium Euro art-film masterpieces feel like--lean, qualmish, abstracted to the point of parable but as grounded as a gravedigging. Read full review
91 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum There are no zombies out of ''28 Days Later'' to alleviate the slow creep of realistic doom in this chilly, tense corker. Read full review
88 Boston Globe | Ty Burr Haneke has become known as a dour modern master of cinematic pain, and in this movie he scrubs civilization down to the root level. Read full review
75 New York Post | V.A. Musetto Haneke's images are so bold and riveting and the characters' emotions are so raw that the lack of a few details doesn't matter. Read full review