"THE ORPHANAGE is an effectively scary picture about guilt, retribution and acceptance, and it shares some of the spectral potency of Alejandro Amenabar's THE OTHERS."Box Office "In just a few minutes, Juan Antonio Bayona sets the tone of his eerie, atmospheric first feature....An unexpectedly poignant ghost story..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "A frightening movie that earns its scares the hard way, generating unbearable tension through artful technique instead of computer."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "An unsettling yet refreshing thriller...it generates deep feeling while implicating you in its terrors and traumas..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he story is riveted together by Belen Rueda's performance, a turn constantly on the brink of emotional collapse....The climax is an emotional wallop."Empire "This is a movie whose power and emotional pitch lie in the understated....A poignant film that looks to the past and the world beyond to illuminate the realities of the present."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE ORPHANAGE -- produced by Del Toro -- delivers....The moments of horror are effective..."Uncut65.33094
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"THE ORPHANAGE is an effectively scary picture about guilt, retribution and acceptance, and it shares some of the spectral potency of Alejandro Amenabar's THE OTHERS."Box Office "In just a few minutes, Juan Antonio Bayona sets the tone of his eerie, atmospheric first feature....An unexpectedly poignant ghost story..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "A frightening movie that earns its scares the hard way, generating unbearable tension through artful technique instead of computer."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "An unsettling yet refreshing thriller...it generates deep feeling while implicating you in its terrors and traumas..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he story is riveted together by Belen Rueda's performance, a turn constantly on the brink of emotional collapse....The climax is an emotional wallop."Empire "This is a movie whose power and emotional pitch lie in the understated....A poignant film that looks to the past and the world beyond to illuminate the realities of the present."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE ORPHANAGE -- produced by Del Toro -- delivers....The moments of horror are effective..."Uncut65.33093
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"THE ORPHANAGE is an effectively scary picture about guilt, retribution and acceptance, and it shares some of the spectral potency of Alejandro Amenabar's THE OTHERS."Box Office "In just a few minutes, Juan Antonio Bayona sets the tone of his eerie, atmospheric first feature....An unexpectedly poignant ghost story..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "A frightening movie that earns its scares the hard way, generating unbearable tension through artful technique instead of computer."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "An unsettling yet refreshing thriller...it generates deep feeling while implicating you in its terrors and traumas..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he story is riveted together by Belen Rueda's performance, a turn constantly on the brink of emotional collapse....The climax is an emotional wallop."Empire "This is a movie whose power and emotional pitch lie in the understated....A poignant film that looks to the past and the world beyond to illuminate the realities of the present."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE ORPHANAGE -- produced by Del Toro -- delivers....The moments of horror are effective..."Uncut65.33093
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The film is a remarkable visual achievement, made more affecting by the depth the actors bring to their characters."Rolling Stone "The key selling point is Bayona's ten-minute reenactment of the tidal wave and its carnage, which is brutal, visceral and without peer."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Here is a searing film of human tragedy....THE IMPOSSIBLE is one of the best films of the year."Chicago Sun-Times "Bayona achieves a rare sense of balance between the big and the powerful as well as the small and the intimate in the family's survival against impossible odds..."Los Angeles Times "THE IMPOSSIBLE plunges the audience into the catastrophe and then immerses us in the panic, grief and disorientation of the aftermath."New York Times "The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens the fact-based drama THE IMPOSSIBLE is rendered with nightmarish realism by Spanish director J.A. Bayona..."Washington Post "THE IMPOSSIBLE confirms that Bayona is a major talent, with a skill for constructing sequences that build tension as masterfully as Steven Spielberg did in his 70s heyday."A.V. Club "[I]ts visceral force is more aggressive, its emotions cut deeper and its intelligence makes fiercely affecting work of close-to-the-bone material."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "THE IMPOSSIBLE is a nimbly acted drama that is at once a stellar visual achievement and a life-affirming story of familial love and courage."USA Today "[T]he painstaking realism is purposely unforgiving."Sight and Sound0.4479552
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The film is a remarkable visual achievement, made more affecting by the depth the actors bring to their characters."Rolling Stone "The key selling point is Bayona's ten-minute reenactment of the tidal wave and its carnage, which is brutal, visceral and without peer."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Here is a searing film of human tragedy....THE IMPOSSIBLE is one of the best films of the year."Chicago Sun-Times "Bayona achieves a rare sense of balance between the big and the powerful as well as the small and the intimate in the family's survival against impossible odds..."Los Angeles Times "THE IMPOSSIBLE plunges the audience into the catastrophe and then immerses us in the panic, grief and disorientation of the aftermath."New York Times "The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens the fact-based drama THE IMPOSSIBLE is rendered with nightmarish realism by Spanish director J.A. Bayona..."Washington Post "THE IMPOSSIBLE confirms that Bayona is a major talent, with a skill for constructing sequences that build tension as masterfully as Steven Spielberg did in his 70s heyday."A.V. Club "[I]ts visceral force is more aggressive, its emotions cut deeper and its intelligence makes fiercely affecting work of close-to-the-bone material."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "THE IMPOSSIBLE is a nimbly acted drama that is at once a stellar visual achievement and a life-affirming story of familial love and courage."USA Today "[T]he painstaking realism is purposely unforgiving."Sight and Sound0.4479552
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The film is a remarkable visual achievement, made more affecting by the depth the actors bring to their characters."Rolling Stone "The key selling point is Bayona's ten-minute reenactment of the tidal wave and its carnage, which is brutal, visceral and without peer."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Here is a searing film of human tragedy....THE IMPOSSIBLE is one of the best films of the year."Chicago Sun-Times "Bayona achieves a rare sense of balance between the big and the powerful as well as the small and the intimate in the family's survival against impossible odds..."Los Angeles Times "THE IMPOSSIBLE plunges the audience into the catastrophe and then immerses us in the panic, grief and disorientation of the aftermath."New York Times "The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens the fact-based drama THE IMPOSSIBLE is rendered with nightmarish realism by Spanish director J.A. Bayona..."Washington Post "THE IMPOSSIBLE confirms that Bayona is a major talent, with a skill for constructing sequences that build tension as masterfully as Steven Spielberg did in his 70s heyday."A.V. Club "[I]ts visceral force is more aggressive, its emotions cut deeper and its intelligence makes fiercely affecting work of close-to-the-bone material."Total Film 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "THE IMPOSSIBLE is a nimbly acted drama that is at once a stellar visual achievement and a life-affirming story of familial love and courage."USA Today "[T]he painstaking realism is purposely unforgiving."Sight and Sound0.4479552
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"[T]he noirish lighting and stark compositions ensure constant visual interest."Sight and Sound14.2529
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"...Xavier Jimenez's cinematography fits the film's tenebrous tone and there's some particularly accomplished art direction from Cesar Macarron..." Box Office "...Wonderfully spooky...a sharp brainteaser of a film, a compelling mind game you compulsively play along with....Smart and carefully worked out..." Los Angeles Times "...INTACTO noodles around big, vague ideas, then stirs them into a baroque swirl of imagery linked in its very Spanish decorative style to such striking Iberian whoppers as LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE and OPEN YOUR EYES..." Entertainment Weekly "...Intriguing....The story is unusually persuasive, dovetailing a complex set of characters and their various numbed situation..." Sight and Sound "...Superior....[A] mind-warping, inventive thriller....Technically assured....Original..."Total Film "...[With] ingenious construction..." Chicago Sun-Times10.61904
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"...An architectural symphony....The film is a visual rhapsody enhanced with music and sound effects created by the renowned Japanese film composer Toru Takemitsu and two collaborators..." New York Times "Teshigahara's mobile, exploratory camera is a perfect match for the fin-de-sicle Catalan architect's artfully deranged yet totally organic buildings."Film Comment "[I]t fuses images of Gaudi's unique creations with long-term Teshigahara collaborator Takemitsu Toru's equally striking score to create something completely mesmerizing."Sight and Sound6.717319
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"...There are refreshingly ludicrous notes..."New York Times "...'Park' devotees will appreciate the familiar bloody slapstick and bursts of comedic rage....The real revelation is the score, a collection of infectious ditties..." Box Office "...CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL has its hilarious moments for sure..." Los Angeles Times5.623708
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JazzTimes (p.85) - "This warm-hearted family affair stands as one of Saluzzi's best."5.362873
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] postmodern, post-SHAUN zomcom roadshow....Director Alejandro Brugues dispatches the undead with cartoonish glee..."Total Film5.362598
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"...LUCIA, LUCIA is a charming romantic fable....Serrano has a way with actors..." Los Angeles Times "...Roth appears to be having tremendous fun....Jorge Garcia's superb editing and Brigitte Broch's design lend maximum pop..." Variety "...A buoyant, protean fable....Writer-director Antonio Serrano moves lightly among genres: comic adventure, political thriller, romantic drama..." Box Office5.349414
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Billboard (p.37) - "[The] artist's salt-of-the-earth delivery well-suits the material, which eschews the usual cowboy legends in favor of first-person tales of heartbreak."5.335525
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