Walter Addiego

The film's sense of intimacy, its closeness to real people and painful events, allows it to reach a deeper place than more conventional pieces of political rhetoric.

The scale is small, but Jellyfish has deep currents.

It’s a lot of ground to cover, but if the movie fails to plumb the depth of Lear’s mystery, it succeeds in being an entertaining look at an influential figure.

A powerful polemic leavened with moments of beauty and humor.

Gets blue-ribbon results from its thoroughbred cast of improvisational comics.

Creating this kind of otherworldly mood takes exceptional talent, and this is a film worth experiencing.

A potent and troubling meditation on the state of Western society.

What's on the screen may not be a letter-perfect Mansfield Park, but something true to its spirit.

A sobering documentary.

Outstanding in support roles are Alison Lohman, playing a friend of Jerry's, and John Carroll Lynch, playing a neighbor who befriends Jerry.

An engaging documentary attempt to probe her mystery, and it offers some answers - she was secretive and stubborn, a hoarder of epic proportions who seems to have had fits of instability. She also wasn't always nice to her young charges.

An intense and affecting report on the experiences of U.S. troops in one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan.

The real joy here is the gorgeous nature cinematography.

A charming and moving film about a slightly racy subculture in a highly rule-bound society.

There’s much of value to be had along the way to a nicely handled ending. It would be a mistake to call it a surprise, but it’s something that few viewers are likely to expect.

In the title role, Kikuchi is impressive, easily handling Kumiko’s comic and more somber sides and never allowing us to settle into a single or simple interpretation of the character.

History rendered with enough brains and imagination to more than make up for its few stumbles.

This new picture is mainly in the spirit of fun, a loose, generally good-natured comedy with screwball overtones.

It's dark fun, in the spirit of "Gremlins."

It’s best to accept Don’t Breathe as simply a piece of lowdown fun — connoisseurs of creepy and sometimes brutal chills will have a good time.

It's compassionate but unblinking.

Bujalski has a serious talent for finding resonance in the mundane.

While Pick of the Litter can’t be described as innovative, it still creates a solid emotional punch when we see several of the five now-grown dogs finally matched with grateful humans. It’s quite moving to hear the recipients detail how liberating it is to have the assistance of one of these amazing animals.

The strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored in this film.

Exhilarating for Lynch diehards.

That the movie works so well is also due to the exceptional talents of leads Simonischek and Hüller, who hold nothing back — especially the former, whose Winfried is one of the oddest ducks in recent movies.

Overall it's a remarkably eccentric work coming from a cagey old Hollywood hand who directed Bogart and Hepburn in their primes. [28 Jun 2009, p.Q30]

The most amazing act in the Gran Circo Mexico doesn't take place in the ring - it's the grind between performances.