Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
[A] humorous and touching new documentary.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
"Batkid Begins" doesn't have answers for our many troubles, nor will it change the world, but it provides hope for humanity, and that's something we surely need to see more of right now.

Name : Tim Appelo / Alias : TheWrap
The editing is ruthlessly efficient, and some of the talking-heads scenes are dramatized via lively comic-book renditions that lend visual panache. All the characters grab you, not just the kid.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
A fascinating look at how a true event can become a media event - and how courting the media can have good and bad results so mixed up that it's hard to know where the good influence stops and the corrupting influence starts.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
The filmmakers lay on such a thick layer of schmaltz that you'll need a cape and cowl of your own for protection.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
The film isn't really about young Miles (whose cancer is today in remission) but about all of us, about our bottomless capacity to do good and our shared love of little kids, big dreams, and Batman.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : AV Club
Tears will be shed, many of them surely genuine. Yet there's still something about this oversize spectacle, and Miles' ultimate place in it, that gives nagging pause.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is Techine's gift - not just detail, but telling detail; and not just slices of life, but slices as rich as a cassata cake.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The film is based on a play, but it is to the director's credit that it never shows the claustrophobic trappings of a proscenium stage.

Name : David Jenkins / Alias : Time Out
The film's big strength is its unwillingness to dish out easy answers

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Like Techine's best films, the movie appears to be a story about nothing - until it suddenly becomes a meditation on the vagaries of the human heart.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Techine has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A paper-thin plot ornamented with distractions: a nonlinear narrative, unreliable narrators, flatulent dialogue and awkward post-production work.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Techine glosses over the story's most potent issue: France's complicated relationship with its Jewish community.

Name : Bernard Besserglik / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The movie is held together.by the fluidity of his style and his characteristic blend of lightness and gravity.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Techine brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Don't expect any kind of neo-documentary examination of cause and effect. That's not filmmaker Andre Techine's style, and this is one of his most successful films.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : Village Voice
For better or worse, there isn't a human experience that French director Andre Techine can resist lathering into a tone poem.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
A seductive drama.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.

Name : V.A. Musetto / Alias : New York Post
It is Dequenne who holds the film together - she and Techine's youthful touch, which belies his 66 years.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It's a well-acted, but frustratingly inconclusive exercise.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
At the age of sixty-six, [Techine] approaches the exploits of his characters with a gusto, and a willingness to be led astray, that borders on the adolescent.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Techine fashions a brilliantly complex, intimate multi-strander, held together but somewhat skewed by the central perf of Emilie Dequenne.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The movie seems likely to be about anti-Semitism, but that's more the occasion than the subject.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
A movie whose blitheness doesn't know when to quit.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Although the main character's motivations remain largely a matter of conjecture, The Girl on the Train is a compelling piece of cinema.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Although this stylish and ominously paced vehicle starts with a full itinerary, it never makes a vital connection.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out
Techine offers a character study in lieu of context for the similar 2007 hoax that threw the French press into a tizzy, and like many of his best films, this what-if examination works best as an actors' showcase.