Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 100

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  Those who can surrender to the Quays' poetic logic will find The Piano Tuner to be nothing short of a masterpiece.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis

  Flaunting elements of "Phantom of the Opera" and "The Island of Lost Souls," the movie, with its haunting, claustrophobic environment, allows the living and the merely lifelike to interact with an eerie beauty.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett

  The film is about vanity and pride, and the caging of beauty. Its elaborate fabrication has an intoxicating quality that captures the imagination like all good horror stories.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Variety

  Impresses as a visually exquisite, rigorously intellectual but dauntingly obscurantist fable about automatons, opera singers and herniated desire that will appeal exclusively to arthouse auds with rarefied tastes.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  The story--is only important in that it gives the Quays a foundation for their fabulous animated tableaux.

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