If [Potter] personally, in her 40s, can go to Argentina and become a tango dancer, then we can't complain about anything that happens to Suzie. Not that we'd want to.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
22 Jun 2001
rotten:
There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jun 2001
rotten:
It's as though we're being dared not to take the movie seriously, although nothing but the pre-Holocaust setting compels you to do so.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
13 Jul 2001
rotten:
Potter eschews drama for posing, politics for postulating, and provides enough symbolic broad strokes to gag a magic realist.
– Kevin Courrier,
Globe and Mail,
16 Jul 2001
rotten:
I prefer to think of this movie as The Critic Who Cried.