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- 60VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungLike an Iraq-war mirror image of "Life Is Beautiful," actor-director Roberto Benigni's The Tiger and the Snow re-runs the successful structure and comic persona of the 1998 Oscar-winning film in a trippy fantasia about a poet who follows his love to hell and, in this happier ending, back.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanBenigni clearly intends to make some impassioned statements about the futility of war, the power of romance, the enduring strength of optimism. However, the once-appealing innocence of his exuberant persona has become curdled over time.
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirA winsome, charming and irresistibly romantic picture, and also a profoundly self-involved one that has nothing whatever to do with Iraq or war or much of anything else besides the butterfly-like spirit of Roberto Benigni. But I guess that combination makes it a great holiday selection choice for certain disheveled, liberal family groups. Mine, for instance.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenPerhaps a greater passage of time was needed to provide a more effective historical perspective, but "Tiger" has a bigger problem with a dramatic structure that sags conspicuously in the middle, never to completely correct itself.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe results are neither profound nor funny, but merely uncomfortable. A hubristic failure at risky humor, The Tiger and the Snow provides Benigni his own Michael Richards moment.
- 0New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe longer the movie goes on, the more annoying Benigni's infantile behavior becomes.
- 0San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleRemember that manic, rambling Oscar acceptance speech, when Benigni leapt around the auditorium? That might have been charming for two or three minutes, but imagine two hours of it.
- 0Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt doesn't seem possible that a film with both the formidable Reno and Waits could be all bad, but The Tiger and the Snow is precisely so.
- 0The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie audiences everywhere.