Movie Reviews6.5/10
‘Take Off’: Jiang Qiming Earns His Wings in Peng Fei’s Flawed but Rewarding Tale
A factory worker builds an aircraft in his backyard, driven by a dream that consumes him utterly.
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Movie Reviews4/10
Without Blood Rushes Toward Its Own Conclusion
A father guards his children against gunmen in a tale of dread and protection, rendered with good intent but little shape.
Movie Reviews9.9/10
Moonlight Review: Barry Jenkins’s Three-Chapter Masterpiece
Moonlight review: Barry Jenkins's three-chapter masterpiece with Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes and Naomie Harris. Best Picture winner, scored 9.9/10.
Movie Reviews8.1/10
My Neighbor Totoro: 8.1/10
A close look at Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro (1988), its quiet method, the bus stop in the rain, and why its success never cheapened it.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Amélie at 25: A Gorgeous Machine That Mistakes Charm for Depth
A mixed review of Amélie, the 2001 French romantic comedy: charming, inventive, and funny, but it mistakes its charm for depth.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
Drive Review: Ryan Gosling’s 100-Minute Crime Thriller Holds Its Nerve
A review of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt driver turned getaway wheelman, with Albert Brooks and Carey Mulligan.
Movie Reviews5/10
Romantic comedy leans on its leads rather than its script
A review of My Best Friend, His Girlfriend and Me, a 98-minute German comedy starring Kostja Ullmann and David Kross about friendship upended by romance.
Movie Reviews8.8/10
The Grand Budapest Hotel Review: Wes Anderson’s Masterpiece of Manners and Loss
A review of Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel: Ralph Fiennes as Gustave H., a stolen painting, a prison break, and a Europe about to vanish. 8.8/10.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
The First Harry Potter Film Still Works Because It Refuses to Explain Everything
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001): Chris Columbus builds a world solid enough for eight films, but the 152-minute pace drags.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
Tarantino Built Pulp Fiction Without a Composer, Letting Surf Rock and Soul Cuts Carry the Crime
Pulp Fiction at 154 minutes has no film score — just a jukebox soundtrack, three looping stories, and dialogue that does the work. A review.
Denis Menochet Faces Nuclear Brinkmanship in ‘Jupiter,’ a Taut but Constricted Debut
Review: Alexandre Smia's 'Jupiter' is a tense but thin nuclear thriller starring Denis Menochet, a claustrophobic war-room drama too small for cinema.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
A Sad and Beautiful World: Contrived by Design, Moving All the Same
A tale of love spanning thirty years, wherein two souls must choose betwixt their home and each other's arms.