Even now with almost 100 years of animated feature films, nothing has quite has the same experience as this film.

| Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2022

Certainly there is more to appeal to an active young imagination, (even like my own) in the "acting" of a convincing silhouette hero in a fairy-story than there is in the undeniably flesh-and-blood attributes of impersonation of a player.

| Feb 22, 2021

The picture Is fully as fantastic and as entrancing as the characters about whom the story revolves.

| Feb 22, 2021

[A] film with moments of almost supernatural beauty. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 22, 2021

The movie's enduring beauty resides in the exquisiteness of Reininger's elaborately curlicued and filigreed costumes, foliage, and plumage, all cut by her from black card with scissors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2021

The style is capable of infinite debasement, but in Reiniger's hands it keeps its delicacy.

| Mar 17, 2020

It's a beautiful and inspiring film made by a true artist and trailblazer Lotte Reiniger.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 6, 2019

It may not be exactly new to perceive silhouette figures on the screen, but it is quite another matter as they are offered here.

| Aug 19, 2014

Beautiful and innovative -- age only adds to its brilliance and charm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2014

Enchanting.

| Aug 19, 2014

German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger's ground-breaking, silent, animated fantasy feature used cut-out paper silhouettes to tell a tale that combines pieces of several stories from The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2014

Beautiful as it all is, considerable dedication is required to sit through an hour of monotone, flat silhouette animation. It's rewarding -- but the reward is hard earned.

| Aug 19, 2014

Even with the knowledge that the figures are made from simple pieces of cards and tricks of light, there is a magical splendour to her animations.

| Aug 19, 2014

More than eighty years later...it still looks like nothing you've ever seen.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 29, 2008

It impresses for its exquisite craftmanship, balletic movement, expressive romanticism and moments of potent sensuousness and poetry.

| Jun 24, 2006

The Adventures of Prince Achmed deserves to be a landmark. And it would be if it were better known.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2006

That The Adventures of Prince Achmed still survives is a work of wonder equivalent to any rare treasure which Aladdin could rub out of his lamp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A rapturous animated kaleidoscope with a more abstracted visage of the 1001 Arabians Nights tale than you could dream.

| Jan 13, 2003

The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a vital part of film history.

| Jan 13, 2003

The tableaux Reiniger created were phenomenally detailed and beautifully realized.

| Jan 17, 2002