Name : Bruce Ingram / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Unfortunately, whatever satisfaction you may derive from seeing assorted nasty human beings get what's coming to them for betraying the trust of man's best friend is watered down by vague social and political allegory.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The whole production speaks well for the power of film; it's a serious stunner.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
This powerful Hungarian drama features the Al Pacino of dog actors.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The more you command it to sit and stay-to settle down as a plausible plot, or to cohere as a political fable-the more it slips its leash and runs amok.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it's a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
What it all means is open to interpretation. Read it as a parable or as a horror movie. Read it as the story of love between a girl and her dog. Read it however you want. No matter what your take, you won't be disappointed.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Rarely does a film's execution achieve or even exceed its director's ambitions, but Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" is that rare movie.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
A mixed-genre fable that evokes Dickensian melodrama, coming-of-age tropes and outright horror.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Intriguing, but the movie's larger statement isn't clear.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
A B revenge movie with A-plus direction by Kornel Mundruczo and a cast of canines so personable that even when they tear out people's throats you still want to take them home.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
Director Kornel Mundruczo goes big with allegory, violence, drama and sentiment, and the results are riveting.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
When the violence gets unbearable, take comfort in the troop of trainers on the sidelines who prove that, for now, man and beast still make a good team.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The obviousness of the message - follow the right leader - would be more tolerable in a less badly acted, less shoddy-looking film.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
White God offers a dark - very dark - take on the way humans exert authority, and superiority, over our fellow creatures.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The hand that feeds - and also brutalizes - is righteously bitten in "White God," a Hungarian revenge fantasy that's like nothing you've seen on screen before.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo downplays White God as a "genre experiment," but his film has real bite regardless.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Think "The Incredible Journey" crossed with "The Birds" crossed with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Or maybe just imagine "Cujo" as told from the dog's point of view. Don't take grandma.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
It all pays off with an astounding, extended climax that is as rousing and exciting as it is frightening - one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had watching a movie.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Kornel Mundruczo's sixth and best feature is an emotionally rousing, technically masterful man-vs.-dog adventure.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
This gripping suspense story considers how any canine can become the unfortunate repository for its master's darkest impulses.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It's ruthless but sentimental, gritty but fanciful, drop-dead serious but also a little impossible to take seriously.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Even those who don't buy in completely to Mundruczo's parable will be impressed by his canine crowd scenes, staged with ambition, skill and genuinely original vision.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
A rousing creature-feature thriller and political allegory, from Hungarian director Kornel Mundrucz.