Snapshot of an idealized version of [Montmartre]... fate, joy, momentary despair and still more joy. It’s filled with lists of likes and dislikes and Jeunet’s restless need to entertain makes <i>Amélie</i> a list in itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Life is hard, but it can be quite beautiful too. And that's especially the case if you use some of it to watch Amélie.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2024

An enchanting, quirky comedy that, like its central character, marches to its own (off)beat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2024

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s quirky rom-com AMÉLIE felt like a breath of fresh air when it was released two decades ago. It's just as relevant today, but for different reasons.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 14, 2024

With the talented Audrey Tautou in the leading role, Amelie is sheer delight, and will entrance everyone who sees it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 13, 2024

Amelie is a delicious pastry of a movie, a lighthearted fantasy in which a winsome heroine overcomes a sad childhood and grows up to bring cheer to the needful and joy to herself. You see it, and later when you think about it, you smile.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2024

Jeunet [turns] the whole story into a comic strip with the inventiveness of his exaggerations, the terseness of his ironies, the briskness of his editing and a voiceover commentary which would have done Roald Dahl proud.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

Like its title character, Amelie is a quirky, unabashedly manipulative charmer that, while endearing at first, overstays its welcome. Until the visual pyrotechnics and faux joie de vivre become too overbearing, however, [it's] a captivating confection.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2024

An utterly fresh, imaginative and emotional piece of filmmaking that s touched by enough sheer magic to lift the spirits of even the most hardened cynic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

If I ever wanted to run into a projectionist's booth and hug a canister of film, it was after I saw Amelie for the first time.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2024

Amélie is the romantic comedy adults have been waiting for. Maybe the one they need.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

[Mathieu Kassovitz] provides Amelie with the highly unlikely love interest who gives this hyperactive charmer its undeniable fairy-tale element.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2024

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film was all the rage in Paris and shunned by the Cannes Film Festival, where elitist selection committee members deemed it too lightweight for inclusion. Sometimes those elitist types know what there talking about.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 13, 2024

Through all our isolation and division, we are united by love. If it takes an uplifting fantasy to state this idea, however whimsically and indirectly, then so much the better. Of course it's not real... What good's a fairy tale without a moral, anyway?

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

It is the feel-good escapist film that most of us need right now, but with a frequent twist of tartness and a cinematic giddiness that intoxicates.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

Amélie is the happy ending to a year that most of us would just as soon forget. This is a film to remind us of the urgent importance of frivolity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 13, 2024

An out-of-practically-nowhere hit in France, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's sweet magic fable is specifically designed to restore our blasted faith in human decency.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2024

Although it's too long for a film so slight, it transports us to a Paris that's as irresistible as it is unreal.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

It’s a lighter-than-air French pastry of a film that will have you begging for more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2024

It's a delirious funhouse of a movie that's an unrepentant crowd pleaser, and one that French tourism officials probably welcomed with open arms.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2024