As Apichatpong erases, once again, the barriers between the celestial and terrestrial, he also does away with the cordons between film genres - this is sci-firomancefamilyreligiousthrillercomedyporn. No video service has a section for that. The only suitable shelf is the one in your soul.

Brokeback may be too polished for some people, too elegantly dispassionate in its study of choked passion.

The Dardennes achieve lyricism without seeming to try.

A fitting, expertly made final chapter, freighted with hard-won emotions, shot through with a sense of farewell, and fully aware of the epic stakes involved.

A key point, though, is that all the scientists profiled have staked their careers on this one discovery.

A masterpiece.

Murderball is a paradox: a movie about quadriplegics that insists we look beyond their disability.

Fairy tales hew to time-honored story lines, and some may fault The Shape of Water for the traditionalism that underlies its phantasmagoric surface. It’s the getting there that bewitches, though, and a performance by Hawkins that’s smart, scared, furious, profoundly erotic, and regal — all without saying a word. Love doesn’t speak in this movie. Instead, it swims with unparalleled style.

Timothy Treadwell was killed, along with his girlfriend, by a rogue bear in October 2003.

A tender genuflection to the women's energies that keep that spinning world from keeling over.

Moneyball is a hilarious and provocative change-up, entertaining without feeling the need to swing for the fences.

Crewdson's work is distinctive, and this film does a great job helping us understand the specific nature of his vision.

I have not seen the film “Fifty Shades of Grey” but I doubt that it evokes the mystery, wit, and eroticism that Peter Strickland’s sumptuously claustrophobic fable of women in love does. All without nudity, bad dialogue, or the requisite wooden acting.

The performances are uniformly excellent, but pride of place goes to Bennett’s Sir James, an upper class twit of Pythonesque proportions. Rarely has a character this moronic been this happy.

A cruelly precise, often bleakly comic account of upper-middle-class privilege coming unglued when the cosmos throws a curveball.

As full of joy as pain, it's a perspective we need to see more often.

Who most of these exquisitely costumed people are I have no idea, but they brush past the camera in such rapids of jubilation it's a wonder they don't knock the thing over. I watched most of the film exhilarated, but depressed that I'm not a big Russophile.

It makes politics exciting again.

It's a meditation on life and death, but it's less somber and more light-handed, subtle, and mischievously funny.

As taut and suspenseful as any fictional mystery.

Room unfolds with the privilege of seeing and experiencing the world for the very first time, which is maybe the best we can ever expect from a medium like the cinema.

The simplicity of Like Water for Chocolate - a Mexican expression for the boiling point - is that of a sophisticated hand paring away all excess until what's left is primal, elemental. In Esquivel's and Arau's fabulist hands, it's the hand that tends the cookfire that rules the world. [19 Mar 1993, p.50]

It’s a movie that floods you with emotion when you least expect it.

You may even feel like dancing in the aisles yourself. Sure, the real world doesn't always work this way. Have you forgotten that this is one of the reasons why we go to movies in the first place?

A miracle of data retrieval as the grown schoolchildren are measured against their footage from the earlier films.

Farnsworth's embodiment of old American values, with their combination of delicacy, reserve, and stand-alone independence, is a one-of-a-kind treasure.

More than "Unforgiven," more than "Mystic River," it is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece.

Krisha sucks you into its gradually worsening family dynamic with a confidence of style and a maturity of observation that is remarkable in a home-brewed Kickstarter movie. At times you laugh in horror. At other times you shrink from the screen. There are truths here.