The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

The story--is only important in that it gives the Quays a foundation for their fabulous animated tableaux. Full Review

With the film's hypnotic emphasis on artistry and architecture, most viewers will probably get their satisfaction from the striking visual elements, particularly the stop-motion animation. Full Review

Flaunting elements of "Phantom of the Opera" and "The Island of Lost Souls," the movie, with its haunting, claustrophobic environment, allows the living and the merely lifelike to interact with an eerie beauty. Full Review

Those who can surrender to the Quays' poetic logic will find The Piano Tuner to be nothing short of a masterpiece. Full Review

Impresses as a visually exquisite, rigorously intellectual but dauntingly obscurantist fable about automatons, opera singers and herniated desire that will appeal exclusively to arthouse auds with rarefied tastes. Full Review