A quiet, heart-rending masterpiece, one with an actor's turn that people will remember, and rediscover, eons into the future.

The small victories that people win in Down in the Delta are earned, and so is the praise that has greeted Angelou's long-overdue arrival behind the camera. [25 Dec 1998, p.05]

Mud is steeped in a sense of place, and the people inhabiting it. Southern. Superstitious. Suspenseful. Sublime.

Riley's film brings the American icon's career back into sharp focus.

This taut cautionary tale explores the dark side of American politics. And leaves the viewer to wonder - if anyone's still wondering - is there a bright side?

One of the rare rock films that produces the effect of a live concert: After each number, the audience erupts into applause.

Inside Llewyn Davis plays like some beautiful, foreboding, darkly funny dream.

It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one.

Quiet, rageful indictment of a two-tiered Islamic society.

With a bit of Tintin and Tati, Charlie Chaplin and Wallace and Gromit echoing in the pacing and comic sensibility, Triplets of Belleville conjures up a world that's totally surprising and sublime.

Mr. Turner is no barrel of laughs. It's a barrel of life - an extraordinary one.

Amazingly - and this movie is amazing - Room is a story of hope, of possibility. Sure, your stomach will be in knots, your fingers clenched, your heart racing. But it will also fill that heart with a sense of the goodness, the courage, the enduring love that is out there to be discovered - and to be held onto with the fierceness of life itself.

Big hair. Big mouths. Big scams. Everything about American Hustle, David O. Russell's wild and woolly take on the late-'70s FBI sting operation code-named Abscam, is big. And the biggest thing of all is the love story that beats at the heart of this rollicking disco-era ensemble piece.

35 Shots of Rum is visual poetry, but poetry that examines the human condition with insight and illumination.

A standout.

A tale of horror, heroism, unimaginable physical challenges, and, yes, cannibalism, Stranded offers the kind of real-life drama that can't help but bring up notions of God, fate, and nature's imposing will.

The Salt of the Earth, has the power to draw you into its world, transfix, and perhaps eventually transform you.

Is it dumb to say, "Wow?"...I don't care. Wow.

Brooklyn is that rare period drama that doesn't lose itself in its dogged re-creation of another time.

Wickedly smart and wickedly playful, Roman Polanski's adaptation of David Ives' Tony-nominated Venus in Fur works on so many levels, it's almost dizzying.

Blue Is the Warmest Color explores a life with a depth and force that would be scary - if it weren't so scarily good.

Modernizing the play with resource and ingenuity, Richard III holds a mirror to our blighted age. McKellen's Richard, a master of statecraft and cunning blackmail and manipulation, is a very contemporary tyrant. [19 Jan 1996, p.03]

With its feverish, percussive soundtrack and bravura cinematography, is like a bolt from the blue, chock-full of unexpected delight.

It's impossible to imagine anyone, right-leaning or left, coming away from this hugely important documentary unshaken by its representation of the United States and its military establishment.

A small, quiet film that walks tall and resonates long after.

We feel it, in our hearts. And therein lies the great power of this small, wise film.

The marvel of Brando's and Leigh's performances is that he is steely solidity and she airy evanescence, something frequently misinterpreted as his modern, realistic acting style and her quaint kind of theatrics. [Director's Cut; 18 March 1994, p.10]

A monumental achievement that documents a coordinated and complicated response to a monumental tragedy.