“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.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Amélie has a hypnotic sense of romance; it’s a fable filled with longing, with a heroine who constantly flirts with failure.” – Elvis Mitchell, New York Times

“Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fresh, funny, exquisitely bittersweet tour de force, about a lass who makes sly incursions into the lives of her neighbors, is ambitious yet intimate.” – Lisa Nesselson, Variety