Michael Sragow

"An unassumingly great movie (...) The movie’s variety of feeling and its go-for-broke inventiveness come from Spielberg"  

"'Deep Blue' is pure bliss. This documentary about ocean life in all its forms achieves its own tidal pull with visual marvels that conjure a Darwinian delirium."

"Full of wit, charm and wonder. It's so hilarious, you might blow a gasket."

"A masterpiece of psychological suspense."

"Christie’s passionate, vulnerable performance keeps pulling the entire movie into her point of view"  

"Over Caesar's corpse Brando begins to mix grief, rage, cunning, and ferocity; his reading of the funeral oration is so quakingly angry you understand why it would rouse the rabble."  

"A tight, gruesome shocker, featuring Karl Struss's spooky cinematography and Charles Laughton's creepy portrayal of the mad vivisector Dr. Moreau"

"Although its leather and chrome iconography and Brando's hipsterism inspired biker and rebel cults for decades to come, it fits all too snugly into the musty category of "cautionary tale." "

"'Odd Man Out' is the rare movie classic that grows more relevant and compelling with every passing year."

"No one has caught the pride, remorse and pain of an unloved and possibly unlovable husband better than Edward Norton in 'The Painted Veil'"

"A scary movie that's also funny, touching and good for you."

"These days, people are more interested in Kurosawa than he is in being Kurosawa"

"This film about fierce competition among classic video-game players is a comic action epic in documentary form. It captures fear -- and heroism -- in a handful of dusty video games."

"Watching this movie, you can dream with open eyes."

"A great adventure."

"'Shine a Light' has two maestros, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, and once they begin to mesh, around the third or fourth song, they put on a display of showmanship that erases the line between art and entertainment."

"An empathetic portrait of the artist that also unveils a trenchant view of an American family's dashed illusions."  

"Holofcenere genuinely wants to make pictures that plug into an audience's need for intimate contemporary comedies. But she doesn't do enough to quench that thirst."

"The title captures this film's harrowing qualities, but not its energy, its limpid beauty or its spiritual grace."

"The movie needs more incident and complication; it's modest to a fault."