Metacritic reviews

An old fashioned romantic mystery that benefits from a wizened, much-honored cast and a still-exotic setting.

Gentle has its charms, and August's vision of the world, archaic though it may willingly be, is appealingly urbane .

Bloodless, far too genteel, and perfectly content to continually tell where a little showing would be nice; Night Train to Lisbon ends up a deeply unadventurous adventure story.

It’s all terribly talky and low-energy; that wonderful noirish title, it turns out, was just a front for a history lecture.

After barely stirring to life, Night Train to Lisbon mercifully expires.

Bille August's film is a protracted, soporific trip into Portuguese history that would like to be a romantic thriller.

Murder on the Orient Express, this ain’t.

Take the last train to anywhere but here.