The film is a river of pain, weirdly funny in places, as are all of Herzog's filmic essays.

A knockout one minute, a punch-drunk crazy film the next, Interstellar is a highly stimulating mess. Emotionally it's also a mess, and that's what makes it worth its 165 minutes — minutes made possible by co-writer and director Christopher Nolan's prior global success with his brooding, increasingly nasty "Batman" films, and with the commercially viable head-trip that was "Inception."

Capable of enthralling.

Elaborately mounted, expensively produced and filmed with style and empathy, it's an adaptation of Paterson's Newbery Medal-winning book that manages to expand the original vision, yet preserve much of its intense emotion.

If you or any kid over the age of 10 has even a half-interest in the definition of the word "teamwork," as well as the words "real-life suspense," this is the movie.

Consistency isn't the chief virtue of Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle, but at its best this ragged satire is bracingly, caustically funny. [27 Mar 1987, p.F-C]

The actors are more than fine. Demoustier is the key, making her character's shifts in astonishment and perplexity honest and plausible.

The kind of movie some audiences are starved for, a comedy with a human face, warmth and spirit.

Both the movie and Denzel Washington are knockouts.

A triumph that deserves a broad audience.

Though "Keys" is not Amelio's best, it has an emotional power almost equal to anything he's done.

Perfect for family viewing.

Withering study of white-collar alcoholics.

The on-screen talents, savvy and fine company all, have been ready for something like this far longer than the opportunity has been available.

Everything about Kung Fu Panda is a little better, a little sharper, a little funnier than the animated run of the mill.

I admire this film’s craft. And I would’ve appreciated a messier, inner-life impulse to go with it.

The Secret Garden is as much a movie for adults with keen memories of childhood as it is a children's movie.

The film is worth seeing, if you have any fondness for the writer who co-created "Beyond the Fringe" and who is second only to Stoppard in his sprightly but mellow wit.

Disney's smashing new mythological feature cartoon, is one of funniest and most purely entertaining of all the recent Disney animated efforts.

A worthy film on a great, tragic subject.

Among the finest hours of horror star Boris Karloff. [18 Oct 2005, p.C3]

Sir! No Sir! honors those who fought, then questioned the morality of that fight, then joined the national protest.

Like a dream, you’re left with thoughts and impressions to mull over for a long time. These sticky images and profound ideas lodge themselves in place, even if you’re not quite sure they all fit together.

They are all more capable performers than are usually found in horror films, and the script is not as stiffly self-conscious as the average, either, with the result that this does of devastation is a bit easier to take than some of its predecessors. [22 Jun 1954, p.27]

This is a quiet thriller and a middle-aged romance, and it's full of desperation and oozing anxiety.

Damon is becoming one of the truest, most reliable actors of his generation. And Eastwood has more films in development, proving, at 79, that 79 is just a number like any other.

Without making a big deal out of it, Big Hero 6 features a shrewdly balanced and engaging group of male and female characters of various ethnic backgrounds. It'd be nice to live in a world where this wasn't worth a mention, but it is. And yet the movie belongs to the big guy.

Strange, funny and powerfully moving… Burton has found a way to move through camp to emotional authenticity, to communicate-through a concentration of style and an innocence of regard-a depth and sincerity of feeling that his deliberately (and often, comically) flat characters could not summon on their own. [14 Dec 1990, Friday, p.C]