The Virgin Suicides Critic Reviews

Bewitching.Read the full review

From start to finish there's a shimmer of discovery about it - our discovery of it, Coppola's discovery of how much she can do.Read the full review

(Coppola) has the courage to play it in a minor key.Read the full review

Coppola gives Suicides a haunted quality that is undeniably affecting, a feeling intensified by a wonderfully funny and touching Dunst.Read the full review

In contrast to big-screen bummers we see every week, this movie conveys genuine sorrow.Read the full review

Coppola infuses her movie with a dreamy poetic tone, and deftly translates the essential metaphors of youth, sexuality and death without sacrificing an earthy humor.Read the full review

Humor prevails throughout, but it doesn't deflate the disturbing elements of the tale, which miraculously manages to stay droll, heartfelt and poignant to the end.Read the full review

Successfully venturesome, but you need to know that it's also a real downer.Read the full review

Glum and preposterous -- an operatically stilted adolescent martyr fantasy -- and yet, as staged by Coppola, it's well worth seeing.Read the full review