"...[Gazes] into the physical world with a fixity, clarity and depth rarely found in the cinema..."New York Times "...It's certainly easy to admire the movie's spare beauty, spirituality and remarkable control..." Chicago Sun-Times30.89412
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"...[A] lovely, absorbing film....The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art..." New York Times Ranked #4 in Entertainment Weekly's "Lisa Schwarzbaum's BEST MOVIES OF 2000" -- "[Chang is] natural and delightful....Profound..." Entertainment Weekly "...A marvel of delicacy and humor..." Rolling Stone "...It's a well-acted, masterfully structured film and Yang's compassion for his characters fills every gracefully photographed frame..." Total Film "...[A] wonderful film....In a film of superb ensemble work, Wu Nianzhen's performance as NJ is a standout..."Sight and Sound "...A wise and gentle comedy of manners....YI YI investigates the entire melody of life....It's a delicate film, but a strong one, graced with the ability to see life whole..." Los Angeles Times "...[A] three-hour jewel from Taiwan about a family in crisis....A must-see..." USA Today 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] breathtaking film....Director Edward Yang eschews histrionics and melodrama to capture a far more affecting truth." Premiere10.27203
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"...Technically, the film is quite sophisticated, and the cinematography, by Serge Guez, has a soft, warm edge that well suits the subject..." New York Times "...A fascinating documentary..."Box Office "...[The] manufacture of herbal concoctions is fascinating to watch..." Variety8.374255
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Ranked #4 in Entertainment Weekly's "Lisa Schwarzbaum's BEST MOVIES OF 2000" -- "[Chang is] natural and delightful....Profound..."Entertainment Weekly "...[A] wonderful film....In a film of superb ensemble work, Wu Nianzhen's performance as NJ is a standout..."Sight and Sound "...[A] lovely, absorbing film....The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art..."New York Times "...A marvel of delicacy and humor..."Rolling Stone "...A wise and gentle comedy of manners....YI YI investigates the entire melody of life....It's a delicate film, but a strong one, graced with the ability to see life whole..."Los Angeles Times "...[A] three-hour jewel from Taiwan about a family in crisis....A must-see..."USA Today "...It's a well-acted, masterfully structured film and Yang's compassion for his characters fills every gracefully photographed frame..."Total Film 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] breathtaking film....Director Edward Yang eschews histrionics and melodrama to capture a far more affecting truth."Premiere7.733814
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"[T]he film's best special effect is Ms. Garner, especially when she's in costume..."New York Times "The supernatural aspects are ably handled, Garner does a nice line in moody..." Uncut7.729976
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Edward Norton is at his best here, chalking up another boundary-stretching performance..." Rolling Stone "[R]igorously styled.Every one of Norton's postures feels chosen. Yet the interesting actor has chosen so thoughtfully that we're riveted." -- Grade: B+ Entertainment Weekly "Entertaining....A pungent period folk tale that teases until the very end." New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]onderfully staged, with Norton on fine form as the weirdly charismatic Eisenheim and Giamatti as the perfect foil."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Edward Norton brings pensive intensity to the role..."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[B]eautifully shot, engrossing and well-acted....It's a solid, enjoyable film..."Ultimate DVD "[W]hat THE ILLUSIONIST does well is create a compelling atmosphere, abetted by Dick Pope's nicely judged cinematography..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] astounding stunts and seductive cinematography....Norton is so hypnotic he could steal your wallet."Uncut6.730052
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"Gene Hackman, bristling with wit and energy, is at his amusing best in the robust comedy WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT."Los Angeles Times6.730052
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"...What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own..." Entertainment Weekly "...One of the purest and simplest examples ever of a director falling in love with her star's gifts. And never has a director found a figure more deserving of her admiration than Bill Murray..."New York Times "...The joys of Sofia Coppola's LOST IN TRANSLATION come from watching Murray modify his trademark passive-aggressive style into played-straight comic bewilderment....This is a career worth watching and a movie worth watching, too..." USA Today "...The film itself -- tart and sweet, unmistakably funny and exceptionally well observed -- marks the arrival of 32-year-old writer-director Sofia Coppola as a mature talent with a distinctive sensibility and the means to express it..." Los Angeles Times "...Sweet and sad at the same time it is sardonic and funny....Bill Murray has never been better..." Chicago Sun-Times "...Altogether remarkable....LOST IN TRANSLATION is found gold..." Rolling Stone "It's packed with incident....It's all in Murray's face....It's a magnificent performance that doesn't seem like acting at all..." Uncut6.730052
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"Exquisite production design and a deliciously witty, well-subtitled script make this one of the truly great imports of the year." Uncut "Lee Mi-Sook gives a performance of thrilling poise....UNTOLD SCANDAL stages dazzling central sequences of double-meaning and hypocrisy." Sight and Sound6.350467
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"This is Gibson's personal vision of the greatest story ever told, a look inside his heart and soul..."Los Angeles Times "[T]here is undeniable power and artistry in the filmmaking..."USA Today "[Caviezel] has an eloquent, spindly body and a gauntly ascetic profile..." Entertainment Weekly "Gibson's immersion in the blood of Christ is an act of faith filmed with a zealot's rapture." Rolling Stone "[I]t is Gibson himself, as director, who most energizes the movie, breathing life into the dusty annals of scripture and investigating them with an almost indescribable, elegiac beauty." Box Office "What THE PASSION adds to Gibson's previous directorial offerings is a stripped-down economy of story-telling and a flair for hauntingly iconic imagery which lend an irresistibly visceral edge." Sight and Sound "[U]ndeniably well-made..." Premiere6.230091
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"...The film remains mesmerizing throughout..." Sight and Sound "...REBECCA may be the most assured women's pic ever made..." Entertainment Weekly6.230091
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"...THE MUMMY RETURNS overcomes the curse of sequelitis while raising the bar..." USA Today "...The actors themselves are more rip-roaring and full of spunk than in their first outing....[The Rock] makes a great face when he thunders..." Entertainment Weekly "...Considerably more elaborate and spectacular than [the first]....The widescreen here virtually bursts with visual goodies..." Variety "...THE MUMMY RETURNS is pure entertainment..." Sight and Sound "...Shrewdly conceived and efficiently executed....The film's constant plot turns, cheeky sensibility and omnipresent action sequences have no trouble attracting our attention and holding on..." Los Angeles Times6.230091
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"...As snappy and well reinforced as Santa's pajamas..." Entertainment Weekly "...For a kids' movie, THE SANTA CLAUSE 2 is unusually sensitive to the varied nature of family life today..." Sight and Sound "...[Allen] projects a warm, fatherly charisma..." Variety6.230091
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"...The large cast of characters is beautifully delineated....The movie's humor and rambunctiousness save the day..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "Culture and sports have never clashed as winningly as in BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM....A rare amalgam of funny, sweet, action-packed and inspiring..." USA Today "...Writer-director Gurinder Chadha juggles all the angles with flair and fairness. Like Nagra and Knightley, the movie is a sweetheart... Rolling Stone "BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM is the most exhilarating movie so far this year.....Made with a craftsmanship and pizzazz that restores your appreciation for honest commercial moviemaking..." Entertainment Weekly "...A terrifically charming and energetic film about pursuing your dream..."Premiere "...Purely enjoyable...What makes is special is the bubbling energy of the cast and the warm joy with which Gurinder Chadha tells the story..." Chicago Sun-Times "...[The film] plays like a combo of LOVE AND BASKETBALL and a much better MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING..." Film Comment6.230091
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"...28 DAYS LATER is the genuine article, a hard-core horror picture from start to finish....This is a punk rock zombie movie..."Premiere "When 28 DAYS LATER is not scaring you silly, it invites you to reflect seriously on the fragility of modern civilization....Mr. Boyle has hardly lost his sly, provocative perversity or his ear for the rhythms of unchecked violence..." New York Times "...Wonderfully, horribly scary....Boyle knows that the world is an unbelievably terrifying place....He never takes us fully out of our reality -- he just throws open the door and watches us scramble..." Los Angeles Times "...28 DAYS LATER is a swankily austere piece of jeepers creepers sci-fi....[A] stark and stylish apocalyptic horror film..." Entertainment Weekly "...Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares..." Rolling Stone "...28 DAYS LATER is a provocative, scary thriller with timely overtones..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Superior science fiction..." Chicago Sun-Times "It simply scares us out of our wits, then gets us to apply those wits to an uncommonly intelligent and suspenseful zombie flick."Wall Street Journal6.230091
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"As played by Abigail Breslin with her trademark youthful intelligence, Nim is endearing, enthusiastic, resourceful and imaginative."USA Today "It's a fun story, particularly in its playful, creative sense of the relationship between fiction and reality."Los Angeles Times "It's hard to imagine kids not enjoying the goodhearted, lovingly shot fantasy of it all, and Breslin is charming..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his three-pronged adventure story, set largely on a remote island in the South Pacific, is pacy, pretty and generally good fun."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Imaginative sequences like animation and animal antics pepper the already complex story with visions of fantasy, making NIM'S ISLAND a thorough entertainment experience."Ultimate DVD5.730129
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s the conclusion to the show it's quite satisfying, tying up the loose ends and offering a welcome last hurrah for Richard Dean Anderson....CONTINUUM is a solid send-off."Empire5.730129
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"[I]t has the tang of real life, though this is realism that has been filtered through 60 or so years of world art cinema..."New York Times 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] quiet, powerful human drama....Writer/director So Yong Kim trains her camera on the young actresses in such constant close-up we immediately feel as trapped as a child and similarly as aware."Box Office "[The director's] choice to fill the screen with nearly everything she shoots has the effect of making plastic toys look like talismans and adult faces look almost mythical in their kindness or indifference." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "TREELESS MOUNTAIN blends autobiography with fiction....Kim's camera binds us gently but tightly within the shattered world of two little Korean sisters....[An] undeniably wrenching tale."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "So coaxes superlative performances from her adorable leads, creating an enchanting, challenging film without ever sliding into sentiment."Empire5.270214
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"...Bergman arrives in the very big time....A virtually nonstop scream of benign delirium, pop entertainment as revivifying as anything you're likely to see..."New York Times "...Many uproarious bits....[Nicolas Cage gives] a funny, over-the-top performance..." USA Today "...[Cage] once again displays the quintessential air of frenetic desperation....Sarah Jessica Parker not only looks appropriately attractive but also brings an essential down-to-earth sanity to the role..." Los Angeles Times "...There is a cheerfully rising tide of goofiness in Andrew Bergman's HONEYMOON IN VEGAS that is typical of his work..." Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t fleetingly glitters with winning charm."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Nic is on satisfyingly manic form, Caan is effortlessly menacing..."Total Film5.230166
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"...The action sequences are imaginative..." Variety "...Your attention is gripped....McTiernan has an arresting visual flair....The whole movie often jells on an almost abstract level..." Los Angeles Times "Action specialist John McTiernan is at his directorial peak..." Uncut "[I]n Arnold's top five..." Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a vintage Schwarzenegger performance from the Austrian Oak's golden age..."Empire5.230166
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"...A symphony of crescendos and pauses, orchestrated toward a big seat-rattling climax, during which an enormous dam breaks, veins bulge on both villainous and heroic brows, and a lot of computer-generated images pop, wiggle and shimmy to the throb and roar of John Ottman's music..." New York Times "...The cast is full of actors who are fun to watch..."USA Today "...It lives in the present, providing one amazing spectacle after another..." Chicago Sun-Times "...Hugh Jackman is again in fierce, lupine form as Wolverine..." Rolling Stone ...No other film-maker has better dramatised superpowers in action and yet remembered the human cost of all the trickery. X2 is full of double-edged power fantasies that manage a frisson of awe amid the excitement..." Sight and Sound "...X2 is 2 good to be 4-gotten. Brisk and involving with a streamlined forward propulsion....One of the unexpected aspects of X2 is the way its concerns seem to be uncannily relevant today..."Los Angeles Times "...It's shiny pop art with an arch, cultured heart underneath..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...It's in the quieter, more dramatic moments that the sequel really gets under the skin..." Total Film "Full of incident..." Uncut5.230166
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"...That T3 fulfils its assignment so ably is a triumph of brain taking over where brawn can no longer prevail....[With] bright, heavy metal charm, unexpectedly lively and self-aware wit..." Entertainment Weekly "...Stan Winston's creature effects are first-rate....[Mostow] propels the narrative with the same zippy B-movie energy he brought to his smaller-scaled BREAKDOWN and U-571....T3 is good enough to warrant a T4..." Rolling Stone "...Schwarzenegger still looks spectacular..."USA Today "...An expertly paced and efficient sci-fi thrill machine, T3 effectively marries impressive action sequences with persuasive storytelling..." Los Angeles Times "...T3 delivers the goods. A hard-hitting, straight-ahead sci-fi actioner..." Variety "...The stunning Loken's liquid-metal performance as the T-X easily holds its own against the franchise's baddies past, while Stahl and the always-engaging Claire Danes do respectable work..." Box Office "...Viewers will be pleased to find out that yet more dastardly shape-shifting awaits them in T3..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "Arnie's most satisfying romp since 1994's TRUE LIES." Sight and Sound5.230166
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"...The combined intensity of these two performances obliterates objections and raises the stakes....It's powerful enough to create its own reality..." Los Angeles Times "...Blanchett always works modestly, with an economy of display that veils her hard technical work..."Entertainment Weekly "...THE MISSING is not to be missed..." Us Weekly "[T]his gorgeously shot movie will remind a lot of people of John Ford's masterpiece, THE SEARCHERS."USA Today "[T]he dusty period tone feels right, Salvatore Totino's stark cinematography parching the landscape with craggy menace." Total Film5.230166
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