A story that rips fleshy holes through your heart.

Watching this masterwork allows you to return to the filmmaking sensibility of the 1960s, when epics looked like epics.

Few movies have evoked the happiness of a good, strong family as genuinely as this one. And this affecting atmosphere makes the eventual outcome resonate with great power.

Wickedly funny and devilishly subversive. It is satire at its most fearless.

Moolaade, in short, is a movie to rock the soul.

One of the most pleasurable movies of the year.

The result is one of Almodovar's darkest films since the early days of "Law of Desire" and "Matador," and certainly one of his finest.

Its themes of passion, heartbreak and the inexorable passage of time are eternal.

Chinese director Zhang Yimou understands perfectly that the small can be epic and awe-inspiring. And, by the way, he knows how to get big, too.

It's easily the best and brightest family-friendly movie of the year.

Exquisitely textured film.

Maintains its artistic magnificence after more than 30 years.

Kidman grabs center stage and never relinquishes the position. Playing mercilessly against her pinup girl image, she's an unforgettable, comic archetype—a more slapsticky corollary to William Hurt's bumbling, handsome newscaster in "Broadcast News."

It hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. (Review twenty years after release).

[The children's] remarkable lack of self-consciousness ... and Kore-eda's quasi-documentary style give this movie a stunning credibility.

It's a guaranteed must-see for its generation. Sin City has a long, long shelf life ahead.

A movie with the visual expanse of a John Ford western and the ensemble grandeur and long takes of a Robert Altman picture. The movie is definitely Chinese in content, but it exudes American style and spirit.

It's one of the most powerful films of the year.

Wings is a soaring vision that appeals to the senses and the spirit. (Review of Original Release)

A small masterpiece of a documentary that takes us into the heart of a complex darkness.

Masterfully arranged for color, texture, decor and camera fluidity, The Conformist is more like a symphonic poem than a movie. (Review of 1994 Release)

To watch "Lives" is not just to enjoy a fabulously constructed timepiece; it's to appreciate a deft cautionary tale.

As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets.

Its mixture of wisdom and whimsy -- exemplified by the movie's unnamed and occasionally cheeky narrator -- makes this Australian movie feel as timeless as it is timely. And instead of feeling dutifully cultural as we immerse ourselves in this story, we're genuinely intrigued, touched and even amused.

It's more than a detailed account of one man's petty vindictiveness in a bygone era. It's about how our hatred can consume us so deeply that we lose sight of everything.

In this good-natured film, even the smallest efforts at kindness yield positive results.

In Get Shorty, director Barry Sonnenfeld's spirited adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel, Travolta's rebirth accelerates directly into adulthood.

So unassuming and pure of heart, you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell "Safe!"