The movie works by stringing together many small observations to develop a portrait more quiet and revealing than many overwrought films that strain to address hot-button issues.

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

A touching combination of fact and fiction makes The Unknown Country one beautiful road trip.

A Quiet Place is the closest thing to a silent movie since “The Artist.”

Showing the intricate dynamics of family relationships is something Mira Nair does as well as any director working today.

To imagine the future, one must consider the past and be active in the present. C’mon C’mon is about the present, and how precious it truly is.

Artful, beautiful in parts and unbelievably brutal in others, and no less honest for its stagecraft.

A wise and wonderful parable.

Cold Comfort Farm may be hysterically funny to regular readers of Hardy, Lawrence, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but it won't ring many bells for the rest of us.

It is probably unlike any movie you've ever seen, and in ways both bad and good. It is, by turns, inept and brilliant, shockingly amateurish and inspired. To see it is to sit there for long stretches amazed at how clumsy, fake and misguided it is. But then, five minutes later you might easily be riveted and moved by its awkward brilliance.

An engrossing tale of class differences that reveals tiny details of one man’s descent into hell.

You’d have to be passionately interested in the details of an Irish small town not to find “Small Things Like These” something of a slog.

Anvil lives somewhere in that thoroughly entertaining gray area between self-parody and the triumph of human spirit.

So it's two guys traveling, eating and talking. Doesn't sound like much. But it's terrific.

A different kind of Harry Potter movie, a better kind... It's where this fantasy series has wanted to go all along.

The world of this film is like nothing most Americans have seen. But we know what it's about. It's about greed and guilt and how inconvenient it can be to have a soul.

Has a slow build and a strong payoff, but George Clooney is the element that holds it together.

The first great Hitler movie.

One of the consistent pleasures of Knives Out is that, while its style evokes an earlier era, the script is very much a witty response to today’s world.

Original, truthful and moving.

Petra Costa’s documentary “Apocalypse in the Tropics” — which not only details Bolsonaro’s rise and fall but how democracies can be subverted and dismantled — is pretty timely.

It's the picture that proves action films don't have to be silly, that a few thrill sequences don't mean every other value has to be shot to pieces.

Some things really are as good as the hype makes them out to be, and The Endless Summer is one of them. [28 Jun 2020, p.K14]

Strikes a surprising array of notes: scary, sad and hopeful. The director, Tomas Alfredson, does a great job of presenting peril in the film.

If the ultra-slow pacing, sparse dialogue and depressingly gray pallette don’t get you, perhaps that super big close-up of a toe-clipping session will.

Later, as the picture becomes a Petrie dish in which James' theories are put to the ultimate test, Certified Copy loses some of its magic, but it retains interest as an appealing and one-of-a-kind experience.

Despite the awkward, stomach- churning camera movements and the grainy, flat images that come with insufficient lighting, the actors' work is often riveting and compelling.

A rage-inducing expose.