“...One of the greatest climaxes in all cinema!"
– Michael Sragow,The Baltimore Sun

“!  Majestic and unbearably moving.”
– Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE

“ ‘A’ Rating!  Masterwork.”
– Stephen Shaefer, Boston Herald

“A MAGNIFICENT RESTORATION!
Evokes the evanescence of beauty, fame and glamour!”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CINEMASCOPE MOVIE EVER MADE! Ophüls uses color with a dazzling, kaleidoscopic imagination.”
– Phillip Lopate

“Ophüls slides through a series of flashbacks with as much ease, and psychological completeness, as Welles exhibited in Citizen Kane.!”
– Roger Ebert

“EXTRAORDINARY... A dazzling commentary on celebrity!”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“SHEER ECSTASY... I recommend Lola Montès wholeheartedly for its sensuous delights and its ever exquisite artistry!”
– Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer

"SARAH PALIN IS THE NEW LOLA MONTÈS"
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– Andrew Sarris

“A SUMPTUOUS RESTORATION! A COLOSSAL SPECTACLE ABOUT COLOSSAL SPECTACLES!”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“SUPERB: THERE IS NOT A FLAW IN THE MISE EN SCENE, NOT A DULL FRAME FOR THE EYE.”
– Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic

“BREATHTAKING! Don’t miss it!”
– David Fear, Time Out New York

“Truly a major cinematic event!”
– 2008 New York Film Festival notes

"A REVELATORY NEW PRINT! REQUIRES THE BIG SCREEN TO BLOOM — AND BLOOM IT DOES, INTO SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY."
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

“ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL FILMS... Beautiful and heartbreaking."
– David Thomson

“Ophüls's boldest vision of film as a medium that reveres beauty in order to both nurture and mock dreams…Thank you for the illusion."
– Fernando D. Croce, Slant Magazine

“ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOVIES EVER MADE! When the first image hit the screen I caught my breath!”
– Nathan Lee, WNYC

“A BAROQUE MASTERPIECE… among the most emotionally and visually ravishing works the cinema has to offer.”
– Dave Kehr

“RECOMMENDED! A MASTERPIECE! GORGEOUSLY STYLIZED AND MAGNIFICENTLY MYSTERIOUS!”
– New York Magazine

“STUNNING...Ravishing and reflexive, sumptuous and sad, Lola has finally received the treatment worthy of its place in film history.”
– Chris Wisniewski, Reverse Shot

"THE MUST–SEE FILM EVENT FOR NEW YORKERS THIS OCTOBER!"
– Michael Moran, New York Entertainment Examiner

"THE NEAR PERFECT MARRIAGE OF CLASSICISM AND MODERNISM…
– Cullen Gallagher, L Magazine.

“Ophüls' LAST AND GREATEST FILM! One of the most scrupulously honest
films in the history of cinema.”
– Malcolm Turvey, Artforum

"IF YOU LOVE FILMS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS IT!"
– Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com