At its best, the effect is like seeing life panoramically, past and future, simultaneous and magnificent.

Sometimes corny, often funny and just as often touching, their act has been wowing Kiwis for decades.

Among the film's more intriguing revelations is the key role California's almond crop plays in the nation's bee industry.

I found myself enjoying Lionheart, mostly because Van Damme is appealing and easy to root for. I like the steady, oddly unjudgmental look that crosses his face when he's about to beat someone to a pulp. [12 Jan 1991, p.C3]

It's really, really funny.

A little abhorrent yet strangely appealing. I found it arty and pretentious, but still couldn't turn my eyes away from its almost hypnotic coolness and fascinating psychological horrors. [23 Sept 1988]

It's striking how much emotion Satrapi is able to convey through blocky drawings.

Sometimes unapologetically stupid and joyously crass, it’s often brilliant in its absurdity, one of those rare comedies where the audience sits there dumbstruck, wondering what crazy thing will happen next. It takes really smart people to make a movie this silly.

Witty, adult treatment of an offbeat subject: a pubescent boy's infatuation with an older woman.

If Wrath of Man has a weakness, it’s that even when everything is explained, it doesn’t quite make sense. But a movie like this is about pleasure in the moment, and on that score, it delivers.

Strange, compelling and hard to classify, it's both a romance and a character study, and it's set against a historical backdrop.

At one point, this movie had me so on edge that I had a fleeting impulse to run out of the theater. It might be weird to say that and mean it as a compliment, but good thrillers work that way sometimes.

Good storytelling.

If you have even a passing interest in outsider art, you owe it to yourself to see Marwencol.

Sly and insightful fable.

More than just culinary recommendations, he provides a cultural guide to the Los Angeles that is almost never seen in movies — and then the film makes an argument that Gold’s L.A. is more relevant than the one we all know.

Sick does a remarkable thing in presenting extreme, sometimes revolting material and simultaneously making us like and admire Flanagan.

A potboiler but entertaining enough to rise above its flaws.

It becomes stronger and more honest than most character studies on film.

This nightmarish revenge drama from Korea is grueling, intense, cruel -- the very definition of extreme cinema.

For all of its brutal flashbacks and heavy-handed devices, The First Grader works best when it works quietly.

Faye's presence provides an unexpected context for the photographer's circle, where the gay and straight worlds overlap, and adds a delightful dimension to Chop Suey.

The film perhaps shines brightest when it depicts two telling relationships Nannerl has outside her family. The first is with Louis XV's 13-year-old daughter, Louise...The other relationship is with Louise's troubled brother, the dauphin.

In many ways a meandering film, a collection of good scenes.

Life With Mikey is friendly and funny and ought to renew a lot of lost affection at the movies in coming weeks -- it's solid entertainment with heart and an ever- so-gentle contemporary edge. [4 June 1993, p.C1]

Exhilarating not only for its dreamlike images and fierce, frequently reckless imagination but also for the fact that it got made (and released) at all.

This is a lean, fast-moving and effective movie, with an undersea world that is as vast and lonely as outer space.

Denis' viewpoint and sympathies are sophisticated, complex and humane.