Three Thousand Years of Longing

"Enchanting..."

"A consciously unfashionable fantasy about a wary academic and a chatty genie that may leave you wishing for more..."

"A fairy tale with more in common with Babe than Mad Max, this movie reaffirms George Miller as one of the great magicians of cinema working today."

"(A) brain-tickling eyesore..."

"The sense that conventions of myth are being deconstructed is lost from Byatt’s original story, but there is enough flash here to dispel any boredom."

"It's a gentler, sadder movie than the dizzying trailer suggests, and less driven by plot than a stickler for storytelling like Alithea might prefer..."

"(It) strains so hard for beguilement and timelessness that it’s ponderous and heavy."

"A curious film, messy in all its ambition but consistently transfixing, an earnest labour of love..."

"An epic fairy-tale that will make you wish for a better ending."

"Destined to become a cult favourite..."

"A bittersweet modern fairy tale from one of cinema’s most bombastic virtuosos..."

"Despite a committed Idris Elba and a winning dash of fantasy, George Miller’s romantic fairy tale fails to spark..."

"There will be many people for whom it is love at first sight, and people in whom it provokes a wild allergic reaction."

"While Swinton and Elba make smooth work of the fairy-tale-toned dialogue, they simply lack the chemistry to make their tryst convince as romance."

"An inventively fanciful and broadly enjoyable palate cleanser before Furiosa rides again."