"If I were to judge this film solely on its visuals, it would get an unqualified rave, no questions asked. It's only w…"

"If "City of Lost Children" had been released then, the "2001: A Space Odyssey (film)" fans would have segued right ac…"

"Entirely created in a studio, and set in a world plunged into endless twilight-cum-night, the film posits a kind of n…"

"But with each frame filled to bursting point with visual detail and multiplaned design, plus razor-sharp cutting that…"

"City of the Lost Children is just unbelievably bizarre when you watch it. The plot is a pretty simplistic good vs. ev…"

"Circus strongman"

"Assassin fleas and their accordion-grinder master"

"A band of child thieves"

"A brain in a jar"

"From Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, the distinctive French wunderkinder responsible for 1991's dazzling genre-bend…"