Ella Taylor

"The film boasts alluring desert visuals, muscular acting and intricate psychology that should attract audiences for women’s movies, foreign art films and those who believe that melodrama still has a place in cinema"  

"'Two Night Stand's' strength lies in the doubts and the ambivalence it expresses about the way we love now"  

"A solid adaptation (...) 'The Maze Runner' feels refreshingly low-tech and properly story-driven"  

"A likable if overly familiar psychological thriller (...) If only the movie didn't insist on constantly telling us what it has quite clearly shown"  

"[A] well-intentioned dramatic re-enactment (...) burdened by sepia-period accessorizing, laborious flashbacks, spurious comparisons between the two men’s domestic lives, and the downright bizarre casting of Franka Potente"  

"Directed by Lee Tamahori with his customary flash and glitter, 'Next' lives from one brilliantly executed chase sequence to the next, which is more than enough reason to stay the course."  

"Another soulful gem from the peerless Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki"  

"[A] extraordinarily tactful movie"  

"'Brokeback Mountain' is at once the gayest and the least gay Hollywood film I've seen, which is another way of saying that Lee has a knack for culling universality from the most specific identities"

"The triumph of 'Capote' is that it both grants and shares with him that twisted brew of obsessive identification and monstrous detachment that is the fertile burden of the artist."

!It's a tribute to Robert Gordon's nifty screenplay and Dunne's cheerful way with digression that 'Addicted to Love', even as it broadens into screwball, also deepens into a character study full of surprising left turns"

"'Tuck Everlasting' is a wise and beautiful poem to the idea that the fundamental human tragedy is not death, but the unlived life"

"Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt's work"

"A very good new Dogme by Danish director Susanne Bier, begins with several lives in excellent working order, and proceeds by way of domestic tragedy to a full-court emotional train wreck."

"Warm, playful and inventive, this tale of an elephant with a spirit as generous as his waistline comes juiced with the genially goofy animation of the folks who brought us 'Ice Age'"

"Wittily manipulating scale to generate the requisite fright factor, the movie is stuffed with visual delights both lyrical and visceral"

"Ray Harryhausen's original stop-motion Sinbad classics are a hard act to follow, but Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore's update, couched in a gorgeous palette of indigo and dark rose, is a big, beautiful thrill all its own."

"The movie is driven almost entirely by its exhilaratingly subversive characters."

"For all his sincerity, Mazursky has ironed out Singer's wicked delight in the ambiguities and frailties of the human psyche, and turned the story into mere burlesque."  

"A potentially interesting tale flailing haplessly in the quicksand of holiday-movie formula."