Critic Reviews

So inventive, confident, and accomplished is the production that it's a shock to learn Sliding Doors is the work of a first-time director-screenwriter.

One of its most obvious strengths is that it can satisfy many different types of audiences -- those who demand something substantial from their motion pictures, and those who could care less.

This is the lightest, brightest and tightest film confection to come down the date pike in quite some time.

In a finely realized and multi-layered first film, writer-director Peter Howitt treats us to a clever and urbane exploration of the monumental repercussions of tiny twists of fate.

The story is hackneyed, and the gimmick only doubles the dullardry.

That neither tale is especially interesting doesn't matter -- the contrast alone is enough to make Sliding Doors an irresistible romantic fantasy.

At least entertaining enough to keep you amused for an hour or two.

It may be Howitt's greatest achievement that we're able to keep the stories straight.

Sliding Doors is frothy stuff, far more complicated in structure than in content.

You're hooked enough to keep watching, even if the characterizations veer toward the two-dimensional.