Critic Reviews

“Without delving into Hallmark-style sentimentality, Sentimental Value captures the unique pain a father can inflict on his children—but also the profound opportunity he has to facilitate reconciliation and healing before it’s too late.”

“...a punishingly deliberate endeavor...”

“Stray Kids: The DominATE Experience is an entertaining film that will have fans dancing on their feet and give those who attended the concerts that euphoric feeling of reliving it all over again.”

“Grief is seldom this entertaining.”

“Imogen Poots in this movie is astonishing.”

“It's well put together.”

“It is the most depressing experience I have ever had in the cinema.”

“The film isn’t entirely compelling — its relentlessness may distance you as much as draw you in... But you have to applaud Stewart and Poots for climbing on to a high board and diving in fearlessly.”

“As directed by actor Bradley Cooper, Is Thing On? benefits big-time from training its focus on how its two lead characters will move forward from their fateful decision.”

“It is, it’s true, a film that could have been authored by Hello! magazine, but isn’t there some value in seeing how someone wants to be seen? There’s also no shame in being in it for the rich lifestyle porn -- on that count it delivers handsomely.”

“Ever watch a movie and you’re like "This is objectively good, I know that. But also, eh, whatever?"”

“Marty Supreme touches on Deaf and Jewish identities while also introducing strong, compassionate characters of color.”

“The Chronology of Water is far from the average actor-turned-director’s movie, loyally foregrounding stagecraft. For all that, the film does depend entirely on the astonishing performance of Imogen Poots as Lidia.”

““Everyone wants to know my story,” she announces in the opening voiceover of her new, self-titled film. “Well, here it is.” Except, it’s not. Here is absolutely nothing. Seventy-five million dollars for two hours of almost pure absence.”

“In endeavoring to turn out another "Madame X" with added theatre atmosphere, [Josef von Sternberg] paid too much attention to his star's spotlight, and too little to continuity.”

“Considered more immediately, "The Blonde Venus" is well acted by [Marlene Dietrich] and her two leading men, Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant...”

“This is a love story directed as if it were an affair of guns and gangsters.”

“A Face in the Crowd hits hard and often. Its attack on the new breed of household gods is superb.”

“It’s the sort of one-location, star-driven ensemble piece that could have merely been a theatrical exercise, and somehow manages to avoid being either stagy or stodgy. Even more impressive is how the actors sync up their own unique performance styles.”

“"The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo," the fascinating feature debut from writer-director Diego Céspedes, is a film of painfully bittersweet, enduringly beautiful joys.”

“A disappointing record of the event.”

“It is no fare for children, but A Face in the Crowd is attention-holding entertainment, as realistic as a newsreel, though showing scenes no newsreel would put on the screen.”

“Unfortunately for the production as a whole, the ever-interesting personality of Dietrich makes a poor story poorer still in comparison.”

“Technically parts of it are as exciting as anything Kazan had done, and if the satire is sometimes too loud and angry to be coherent, at least it makes a stimulating change.”

“It is an exceedingly dynamic film with few letdowns during its nearly two hours. It is also a frightening film. Frightening in that it shows all too clearly the influence wielded by the living room Cyclops.”

“Minor roles are handled with capability, and I suppose the director did the best he could with the story.”

“It is entertaining, well directed and well acted. See it.”

“the film has humor, warmth, a certain brutality, and a wonderful cast.”

“In the role of Lonesome's mentor and eventual nemesis, Patricia Neal gives the performance of her career, a piece of work second only to that of the star himself.”

“You don't get to see much more of Newman than his sweating head and shoulders above the wheel. Yet a certain charism is there.”

“It's an indulgent film which panders to a variety of wishful young thoughts. But it also is a well made film, which makes a lot of sins pardonable.”

“"Vanishing Point" is a fine celebration of cinematic techniques, an assemblage of startling effects and sleek and vivid surfaces.”

“Newman does a good job in portraying this man possessed by the death wish and, although the movie is sloppily edited and directed and the story often cluttered with superfluous characters, the sheer power of relentless speed has an almost hypnotic effect.”

“"Vanishing Point," in truth, is a pretty good action film all loused up and slowed down by people who are trying to read meaning into 100-plus mph.”

“The whole movie quickly goes down the drain.”

“Unfortunately, Bradley Cooper’s much-ballyhooed movie goes belly-up pretty quickly once you realise it’s in no particular hurry to get to anywhere particularly interesting.”