Red Riding Trilogy is an immersive experience like "The Best of Youth," "Brideshead Revisited" or "Nicholas Nickleby."

This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.

This is one of the best movies of 2017.

Not many movies like this get made, because not many filmmakers are so bold, angry and defiant.

One of the many wonderful surprises in A Star is Born is how director/co-writer/leading man Cooper strikes the perfect balance between a showbiz fable with emotional histrionics and performance numbers and a finely honed, intimate story with universal truths and experiences hardly unique to the entertainment world.

As always, Steve McQueen is an original and bold storyteller, delivering the goods with dazzling creativity. Even when “Widows” delves into pulpy, blood-soaked material, everything is filtered through the lens of a true artist. This is one of the best movies of the year.

Like all good satirists, he knows that too much realism will weaken his effect. He lets you know he's making a comedy. There's an over-the-top exuberance to the intricate crosscut editing and to the hyperactive camera.

One of the most fascinating aspects of Inside Job involves the chatty on-camera insights of Kristin Davis, a Wall Street madam, who says the Street operated in a climate of abundant sex and cocaine for valued clients and the traders themselves.

This is such a rare movie. Its characters are uncompromisingly themselves, flawed, stubborn, vulnerable.

The end result is a brilliant and brave and beautifully honest film.

The film concludes not with a "surprise ending" but with a series of shots that brilliantly summarize all that has gone before. This is masterful filmmaking.

This movie gets you coming and going.

Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy.

Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film remains one of the great horror masterpieces, working not with fright, which is easy, but with dread, grief and apprehension.

That such intelligence could be contained in a movie that is simultaneously so funny and so entertaining is some kind of a miracle.

Singin' in the Rain is a comedy, but The Band Wagon has a note of melancholy along with its smiles, a sadness always present among Broadway veterans, who have seen more failure than success, who know the show always closes and that the backstage family breaks up and returns to the limbo of auditions and out-of-town tryouts.

Released in 1962, it seems as innovative and influential as any New Wave film.

Timothée Chalamet gives an Oscar-worthy performance in one of the best films of 2024.

The screenplay by David Mamet is a wonder of good dialogue, strongly seen characters and a structure that pays off in the big courtroom scene - as the genre requires.

Oh, what a lovely film. I was almost hugging myself while I watched it.

Rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen.

Spellbinding.

Trouble in Mind is not a comedy, but it knows that it is funny.

Leigh's Another Year is like a long, purifying soak in empathy.

Bahrani, as director, not only stays out of the way of the simplicity of his story, but relies on it; less is more, and with restraint he finds a grimy eloquence.

No actor is better than Bill Murray at doing nothing at all, and being fascinating while not doing it. Buster Keaton had the same gift for contemplating astonishing developments with absolute calm. Buster surrounded himself with slapstick, and in Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch surrounds Murray with a parade of formidable women.

One of the year's best films for a lot of reasons, including its ability to involve the audience almost breathlessly in a story of mounting tragedy.

Mangrove is an invaluable work enlightening us on an important chapter in Black history across the pond.