"A GORGEOUS PUZZLE BOX OF A MOVIE… To revisit Marienbad today is to glimpse a vanished moment when American audiences drank in European films not because they were universal or 'relatable,' but for their otherness, their impenetrability, their definite contrast to the simplistic and elephantine Technicolor epics that much of Hollywood was then embracing... Manhattan cinephiles may find themselves as mystified and delighted as their counterparts in 1962."
– Mark Harris, The New York Times (January 13, 2008).

"THRILLINGLY HYPNOTIC! VOLUPTUOUS! One of the strangest artifacts of cinema history… no other film has affected fashion as deeply."
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

"Last Year at Marienbad recalls not just a style of filmmaking—glacial, intense, contemptuous of easy explanations—but a whole epoch of filmgoing, in which the burdens of European cinema were loaded into late-night discussion… Seeing the film again, and succumbing, like a dance partner, to its gliding moves, one has to ask: HOW COULD A FILM THIS BEAUTIFUL EVER HAVE BEEN THOUGHT UNAPPROACHABLE?"
– Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

"Hopelessly retro, eternally avant-garde, and ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MOVIES EVER MADE (as well as one of the most reviled), Marienbad is both utterly lucid and provocatively opaque… It eludes tense. The movie is what it is—a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside of time, and a shocking intimation of perfection."
– J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

"STILL A KICK TO WATCH! It's a formal masterpiece… Remains audacious now because no one really makes movies like this anymore. Its mystery is forever intact. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT."
– Steve Dollar, The New York Sun

"Last Year at Marienbad is from another time in the evolution of the cinema."
– Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer.

"I was not prepared for the voluptuous quality of Marienbad, its command of tone and mood, its hyonotic way of drawing us into its puzzle, its austere visual beauty."
– Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.Suntimes.com

"AN AGELESS MASTERPIECE!" --
– San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Be prepared for an experience such as you've never had from watching a film
when you sit down to look at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, a TRULY EXTRAORDINARY French film."
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

"The most monstrously elaborate enigma ever conceived in terms of cinema... Even moviegoers who dislike the picture will feel impelled to discuss, to analyze, to interpret what it means. Even those who find high baroque as gay as Resnais finds it "lugubre," will admit that in his film the glorious old palace glows like a lotus in the moonlight. Even those who groan at the drone of the narrator's tone will admit that his words are often poetry. Even those who find the film cluttered with technique will admit that the technique is MASTERFUL."
– TIME Magazine