Amélie Reviews
L.A. Weekly
A frenetic bore that insists on its audience's adoration while making no demands upon their intelligence.
Matinee Magazine
Meant to be postcard-perfect, it rings false.
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| Original Score: D+
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
I like my films to be more intellectual and less like French pastry.
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| Original Score: C
Top CriticInitially disarming, this simpering dolly grows increasingly wearisome.
Film Blather
It's not every day that you see a film so enamored with its own quirkiness.
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| Original Score: C
Slant Magazine
Fresh from the Jeunet quirk factory comes Amélie, a self-indulgent Montmartre-set fairy tale that's the cinematic equivalent of a dribbling lump of caramel taffy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Compuserve
'Amelie' is afflicted with the terminal cutes.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Matinee Magazine
Amelie's only major crime is how dull it can often be even while being so deliberately elaborate.
It is overwritten and overdirected for the quaint, simple feelings it attempts to project.
Features an aggressive, in-your-face romanticism that's noticeably lacking in genuine warmth.
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| Original Score: 2/5
It's hard to be charmed, hard to think of a movie as a delightful trifle, when you're so conscious of how hard the filmmakers are working to make it charming.
It's the kind of motion picture that's both intelligent and immensely likable -- just like the main character.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
"Amélie" is filled with whimsical charm the way that a chocolate soufflé is filled with air.
| Original Score: 4/5
Common Sense Media
Thoughtful, charming for 16+.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Baseline.Hollywood.com
Is it possible to describe to another what pure, unadulterated joy feels like? Because that the expression one leaves the theater with after seeing Amelie ...
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| Original Score: 5/5
Irish Times
