"...A loopy contemporary comedy....Winslet gives a particularly bold, uninhibited and magnetic performance..."
Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Winslet is the rare actress who can rage at the heavens and reach for them at the same time....[HOLY SMOKE! Is] a knockabout fusion..." -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly "...Provocative, frequently hilarious....[Winslet and Keitel] stray into territory that lesser (and less courageous) actors would avoid..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
Premiere "...Original in every sense....[Viewers] will embrace its thematic and stylistic complexity..."
Variety "...Winslet and Keitel are both interesting in the film..."
Chicago Sun-Times "...A high-risk, darkly comic triumph....[The] film traverses a tremendous range of emotional terrain....At once hilarious and serious, cruel and tender, and bristling with vitality, HOLY SMOKE is the right movie for the millennium..."
Los Angeles Times "...The real story in this underrated original is Keitel's co-star, Kate Winslet. Sexy, snotty, vulnerable, and, above all, contentious, her character is the catalyst..."
USA Today