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78 out of 100

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  • Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Kôji Yakusho
  • Summary: This beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan, a crazed killer, apparently without motive, hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver, a schoolgirl and her older brother. (The Shooting Gallery)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Understated acting and brilliant use of wide-screen black-and-white cinematography.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    100
    Quiet, powerful, contemplative, respectful of stillness, Eureka is the first film this year in which there is obvious greatness.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Nicole Arthur
    60
    The film's loveliness does much to modulate its often maddening pace.

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