CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian

Kenneth Turan - LA Times

Claudia Puig - USA Today

Carrie Rickey - Philadelphia Inquirer

Ken Fox - TV Guide Online

Manohla Dargis - NY Times

Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Ty Burr - Boston Globe

Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald

Ruthe Stein - SF Chronicle

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Kimberley Jones - Austin Chronicle

Jack Mathews - NY Daily News

DUELING CRITICS

"Bee Season is not a movie about spelling bees. It is a movie about a spiritual choice that calls everyone's bluff; it involves the sort of refusal and rebellion seen in that half-forgotten masterpiece, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner"

- Roger Ebert

"There is a common word having to do with the bodily function of a farm animal that describes the spirituality of Bee Season -- a movie mixing the dynamics of a spelling bee with the metaphysics of Jewish mysticism -- but I can't spell it out in a family newspaper"

- Jack Mathews