Peter Keough

"[It] capture all four lawyers in both vulnerable and heroic moments (…) Rating: *** (out of 4)"  

"Though the subject seems to call out for the dry irony of early Errol Morris documentaries (...) Stern opts for respectful curiosity and empathy"  

"These are heartbreaking, Dickensian tales about innocents victimized by greed, injustice, indifference, and cruelty"  

"What cinema is capable of at its best: It reproduces a world with such acuteness, fidelity, and empathy that it transcends the mundane and touches on the universal (…) Rating: **** (out of 4)"  

"Preposterous plot foils 'Kidnap' (...) As for the bad guys, the film falls back on that reliable Hollywood stereotype, the hapless, malevolent redneck (...) One-dimensional (…) Rating: *½ (out of 4)"  

"It will be hard to beat (...) 'Railroad Tigers' for the best opening credit sequence of the year."  

"Another complex and magnificently acted melodrama (...) Rating: ***½ (out of 4)"  

"World-class cinema (...) It would become one of the great achievements of film."  

"Lee's first feature posed him as a rival to Woody Allen, nearly equaling him in psychological authenticity, perhaps bettering him in virtuosity and sheer creative glee."  

"Austerely beautiful (...) In the protagonist, Varda has created an everyperson worthy of Samuel Beckett's."  

"Though the images of ocean vistas and sea life are breathtaking, a critic might sniff at the film’s anthropomorphism and manipulative, formulaic narrative."  

"You might not want to bring along someone you love, because you could end up leaving the theater alone."

"When actors grin as much as they do in 'Undercover Blues,' you know that something is seriously the matter."

"Had Okiura cut some of the supernatural shtick he would have had a far more affecting and mercifully shorter movie."  

"Of Losey's three collaborations with Pinter, it is the most challenging and influential."