«To say that tracking it down is worth the effort would damn with faint praise a superior film that is not only far more faithful to Nabokov's novel than the 1962 version but more faithful to the novel than any film version might reasonably have been expected to be. Admittedly its early Riviera sequence, that crucial Annabel Leigh episode, reinforces the worries of those who dislike Lyne's fondness for softfocus photography and pretty compositions, but that seems to be a second unit aberration.» Vickers, 2008, pp. 198-199 Graham Vickers, Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again, Chicago Review Press, 2008, ISBN978-1-55652-968-9.