Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Is Kumiko simply naive, or is she mentally ill? The film's perfect ending doesn't try to solve that riddle, but it will make you feel as if you've just seen something hypnotically original.

Name : Kristin Tillotson / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Odd, mystical, strikingly original .

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Kumiko's unique vision makes for humour and pathos in David Zellner's film.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Kikuchi brought humanity to the robots-vs.-monsters action of Pacific Rim in a small supporting role, and she ups that much more with the meek title character of Kumiko .

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
The filmmaking team of David and Nathan Zellner. have channeled Kumiko's visionary madness into a memorable, haunting and highly original American movie.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Film.com
One of the best films to ever premiere at Sundance.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" is a supple combination of Little Red Riding Hood adventure, ironic road film and cross-cultural confusion.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
An engaging, even surprising feature.

Name : Mike D'Angelo / Alias : AV Club
Kumiko feels like a collection of amusing and/or depressing riffs stitched together within a context that barely matters.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
What I saw was a case of filmmakers blissed out on their own hermetic concept.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
As portraits of mental illness go, "Kumiko" is slender but even-handed, neither romanticizing its heroine's mania nor tipping into melodrama or horror.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Village Voice
A deranged pseudo-feminist fable, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter takes its tedious time getting to its unrewarding destination.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
At her best, Kikuchi evokes the little match girl, bathing her bleak existence with too-brief warmth.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
A haunting, fantasy adventure for the ages in one of this century's most breathtaking independent films.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Is the story, and its heroine's fate, a fairy tale or a delusion? If the former, the movie is as sweet as a Disney-inspired anime. If the latter, Kumiko is deeply sad.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
If Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter takes its time, it's time worth taking.

Name : Dan Kois / Alias : Slate
I can't say that this austere, beautiful movie satisfied my impatient desire for answers. (It seems, in fact, to be a rebuttal to that desire.) But I'll be thinking about Kumiko's journey for a long time.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The film's steady accumulation of little quirks - such as the fact that Kumiko has embroidered her treasure map on a piece of fabric, using a freeze-frame from "Fargo" as a template - soon grow tedious.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
A delicate, haunting study of a woman who has in several senses lost her way.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In the title role, Kikuchi is impressive, easily handling Kumiko's comic and more somber sides and never allowing us to settle into a single or simple interpretation of the character.

Name : Jordan Hoffman / Alias : New York Daily News
The specifics of this movie are engaging, but the big picture stays buried.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
If you're in the mood for something different, you're in luck: "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" takes elements of the traditional quest story into completely new places.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
File this one under "odd and interesting but . "

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses Fargo, the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
A fascinating - at times illuminating - tightrope act, but rarely an enjoyable one.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A work of rigorously disciplined eccentricity, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is at once entirely accessible and yet appealing only to a rarified crowd ready to key into its narrow-bandwidth sense of humor.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
A beguiling fable of buried treasure and movie-fed obsession.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Beginning as a colorful documentary about the Puerto Rican transgender community. Mala Mala slowly morphs into a celebration of solidarity and collective activism without ever losing sight of its likable protagonists.

Name : Diana Clarke / Alias : Village Voice
This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
While affirming the dignity of its subjects, "Mala Mala" shows there's little glamour attached to the pursuit of selfhood.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Mala Mala depicts its subjects with an uncommon degree of empathy and understanding, not to mention glamor.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : AV Club
The outcome of this campaign gives the film a heroic arc, and yet amid all the images of celebration and joyful physical abandon the most lingering images are the ones depicting daily routines.