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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| Feb 13, 2024

By the end even Tautou's unassuming presence has become slightly maddening. Why this infantilist tripe should have stormed the French box office is a mystery, though one can be certain its promoters hope for it do the same over here. You have been warned.

| Feb 13, 2024

Here is a comedy with a lightness of touch, a clear line of thought and interesting characters. What more do you want for the price of a half decent bottle of Chablis?

| Feb 13, 2024

In a word, it’s simply there to amuse. Just sit back, take it as it comes. It doesn’t come with more charm.

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

In his latest. Amelie, Jeunet steers his talents toward romantic dreams, delivering a crowd-pleasing comedy-fantasy with a puckish side.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2024

I don’t know how many ways there are to say “delightful,” but every single one of them applies to Amélie.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2024

What makes it such a pleasure to watch beyond its rich characters is the joy Jeunet takes in cinema itself. Not since Truffaut made Jules and Jim has a director used all of the tools of filmmaking quite so much like a toy box.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2024

In a sense, Amélie depends on the maniacal cataloguing of signifiers of a caricature France: Jeunet nails every last one. But he cleverly opts for a tone that is modest rather than grandiose.

| Apr 10, 2018

The whimsical romantic comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet burst through the language barrier to become an international success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2015

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie is one of those once-in-a-decade comedies which scatters its charm like pearls from a broken necklace, all the more adorable because they are not real.

| Dec 2, 2014

It's all very charming, often amusing, and there is hardly a dull moment.

| Oct 21, 2014

It is a tour de force of a bauble, if such a thing can exist.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2014

Jeunet has succeeded at drawing us inside his head; the question is, do we want to be there?

| Apr 9, 2014

It's hard not to fall under the spell of this moonstruck romance.

| Apr 9, 2014

One of the least revolutionary works in the history of cinema: a small, dippy, consoling pick-me-up, decked in bright array.

| Apr 9, 2014

Amelie contains enough material for a dozen or so charming shorts, but stretched to feature length, the whimsy grows wearisome, and the film delights far less than it seems to desire.

| Apr 9, 2014

Underlying the directorial derring-do is an enduring truth: Love really can conquer all.

| Apr 9, 2014